"I have yet places where I am held as an honest man." Now I had enough of him, and I would not ask him more of himself yet I will say that my heart softened somewhat toward him, for I knew that here also he had been well thought of.

Almost did I forget how he had treated me, for now that seemed a grudge against Tregoz.

Maybe that was all foolishness on my part, but I am not ashamed thereof today, as I was then.
"Stay, have you any weapon ?" I said, as I was turning away.

"There are many ills that may befall an unarmed man in a wild country." "There was a seax here," he said, rising stiffly.

"They left it on the ground, that I might see help out of my reach, as it were.