I will defend thee with every power I have until such time as thou mayest safely escape beyond the seas." He held out his hand.

The monk took it and pressed it between both of his.
"The Lord deal with thee and thine as thou hast dealt with me," was the reply, spoken in deep, earnest accents.
The knight bent his head in response to the benediction; and Brother Emmanuel moved silently away, closely followed by Edred, who looked pale and troubled.
"Thou dost not think he will present himself at the priory with the rest of the world ?" asked Lady Chadgrove, with anxiety in face and voice; and her husband thoughtfully shook his head as he made reply: "I trow not.

I have spoken to him of that before, and he was very well resolved to fly the country and strive to finish the work he has begun, to join the band who are toiling might and main to bring a purer and holier spirit within the pale of the Church and her servants.

It is a work to which he has long felt called, and he believes that it will be faithfully carried out somewhere, if not here.

For a while he will be safer beyond the seas; but he may return and join with those in Oxford and London who are toiling in the same cause.