And, lo! his shoulders grew rounded, and his eyes crossed terribly, and they bided so, and he mumbled the words he had said when the whip of the huntsman fell on him.
Then he straightened himself again and looked timidly at me.

He was not like the man who had bound me so cruelly in Holford combe on the Quantocks.
"Evan," I cried, "what you did for me at the ealdorman's gate is enough to win any pardon you may need." "It is wonderful that, after all, pardon should come from you, Thane.

Do you mind how I said to you that I hoped to win it otherwise through you when we took you on the Quantocks?
It is good to feel as a free man once more." "Free, and maybe honoured yet, Evan," I said; for I knew that he had risked his life for me and Owen.

"Presently you shall come with me to Wessex, where none know you, and there shall be a fresh life for you.

It is in my mind that what you brought on me was as a last hope." "Ay, that is true, Thane." And then I asked him to tell me all he knew of Owen, and of what had happened here, and how it came about that he knew aught.