That such a man should be dubbed a heretic is vile and wicked; and right glad were all to hear that he had escaped the malice of his enemies, and fled where they could not reach him.

I did not dare even then to tell all the tale, but I said how we had laid our heads together and had helped him to escape.

The king and the queen themselves praised me for our courage, and called me a good lad and a brave one not even to trouble our father with the knowledge of a secret that might have made ill work for him.
"My Lord of Mortimer had not been idle.

He had been before us in seeking the king; but as good chance befell, he had a quarrel with young Henry, the king's fiery son; and the prince was mightily offended, and made his sire offended likewise.

Wherefore Mortimer was something in disgrace even before we got there, and when our story was told he was called up before the king and prince.