"I would not have missed it for worlds.

That villainous hunchback! So he was a damnable heretic after all! I grieve we ever stood his friend.

May he perish like the vile creature he is! I will ask Brother Emmanuel to set me a penance for having touched him that day when we thought him an innocent trader.
"Edred, thinkest thou that it can be true that Brother Emmanuel is himself a heretic?
If it be, we must drive him forth with blows and curses.

To sit down at board with a heretic, to hear teaching from his lips! Beshrew me, but one might as well have a friend from the pit for an instructor! It cannot be; surely it cannot be." The boy spoke hotly and angrily.

He had stopped short as if in the heat of argument, and Edred saw by the flash in his eye that he had caught sight of some lurking spy close at hand.
"Belike no," answered Edred cautiously, but taking his cue instantly from the other.