Fortunes are lost and won but too quickly in these times, and will be again, I misdoubt me, ere England sees peace and prosperity once more.

But at least the vultures fatten if honest folks starve; and what care princes how their subjects suffer, so as they and their nobles divide the spoil ?" "Nay, now, you wrong them," cried the lad with sudden heat.

"He is unworthy the name of prince who could thus think or act." Then pulling himself up quickly, as if afraid he had said too much, he returned to the matter of the bargain, and asked what the peddler would allow for the jewel.
The offer was not a very liberal one, but the man professed that jewels were difficult to get rid of, and Edward was no hand at making a bargain.

However, when he had paid for his purchases he had a few gold pieces to put in his pouch, and he reflected that in London he should be able to dispose of the other jewels in his possession to better advantage.

He had enough now to purchase a horse to take him to London, and for the present that was all he required.
He and Paul shared the same room at night, and talked in low tones far on into the small hours.