This is a matter which is weighty, and in no wise to be lightly gone into.

But have no fear for him, Hakon." Thereat Hakon smiled as if well pleased, and said no more.

Bertric did but speak the truth concerning me.

But most of all, it seemed to me that the new things I had learned were so wondrous that I thought myself unfitted for them.

I think that, if I tell the truth, I must needs say that I was afraid thereof, in ways which I cannot set into words.
Bertric and I went out to look for men when all was said that needed saying, and the first person we found was Dalfin.