or ...

or such as even a priest might engage in ?" Then the light of fanaticism leaped to the eyes of his friend, and his face brightened wonderfully.
"Do they observe the courtesies and forms of law ?" he snarled.

"Did Nelson die by God's law, or did Sherwood--those we know of?
I will tell you this," he said, "and no more unless you pledge yourself to us ...
that we count it as warfare--in Christ's Name yes--but warfare for all that." * * * * * There then lay the choice before this lad, and surely it was as hard a choice as ever a man had to make.

On the one side lay such an excitement as he had never yet known--for Anthony was no merely mad fool--a path, too, that gave him hopes of Marjorie, that gave him an escape from home without any more ado, a task besides which he could tell himself honestly was, at least, for the cause that lay so near to Marjorie's heart, and was beginning to lie near his own.

And on the other there was open to him that against which he had fought now day after day, in misery--a life that had no single attraction to the natural man in him, a life that meant the loss of Marjorie for ever.
The colour died from his lips as he considered this.