Many a fight he had fought for that cause representing the highest of Christian ideals.

Also, he had been a pilgrim, and had visited innumerable holy shrines.

For years, his soul had been steeped in religion, in that Land where true religion had its birth, and all within him, which was strongest and most manly, had responded with a simplicity of faith, yet with a depth of ardent devotion, which made his religion the most vital part of himself.

This it was which had given him a noble fortitude in bearing his sorrow.
This it was which now gave him a noble exultation in accepting his great happiness.

It filled him with rapture, that his wife should have been given to him in direct response to his own earnest petition.
When at length Mora stood up, stretching her arms above her head and straightening her supple limbs: "My beloved," he said, "if the vision had not been given, wouldst thou not have come to me?
Should I have had to ride away from Worcester alone ?" Standing beside him, she answered, tenderly: "Dear Hugh, my most faithful and loyal Knight, being here--and oh so glad to be here--how can I say it?
Yet I must answer truly.