Ay, here it is." He took it up, and I knew that after all he had felt somewhat as he had made me feel when I saw help close to me and might not have it.
I pitied him, for I knew well what his torture had been.

Ay, and I will tell this, that men may know how this terror burnt into me.
Many a time have I let a trapped rat go, because I would not see the agony of dumb helplessness in anything.

It frays me.

There is no wonder that I set Evan free.
I said no more, but left him staring after me with the seax in his hand, and rode on my way, thinking most of all of the peril that was about Owen, and longing to be back with him that I might guard him.

It seemed likely now that Gerent could take all these men whose names I had heard without the least trouble, for they could not deem that their plans were known.