It is ill to be laid up in a strange land.

Get him on board as soon as you can, for there is but an hour to wait for tide.

I will ask no pay for his passage, for he is but another bale of goods, as it were, swaddled up in that wise, and I told you that I would take all you liked to bring for what we agreed on." Evan thanked him, and Thorgils laughed, turning away to go up the town, and saying that he would be back anon.

I groaned again as he passed me, and he looked straight in my eyes, which were all that he could see of me.
"Better on board than in that litter, poor fellow," he said kindly; "it is a smooth sea, and we shall see Tenby in no long time if this breeze holds." He passed on with a nod and smile, and I could almost have wept in my rage and despair.

I could not have thought of anything more cruel than this, and there was a sour grin on Evan's face, as if he knew what was passing in my mind.
Now they lifted me once more and carried me to the ship, setting me down amidships while they got the bales of goods on board.