Then there is the Abbot, too.

I am no friend of his, nor he of mine; but he has warm blood in his veins.

He is the only man left among them.

The others, what are they ?" "They are holy men," Alleyne answered gravely.
"Holy men?
Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar.

Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck?
There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it." "Why, then, did you join the brothers ?" asked Alleyne.
"A fair enough question; but it is as fairly answered.