It would be a grave scandal, were he to be brawling in the town where he is known.

Therefore, I pray you, take him elsewhere.

I have striven long to make him a worthy member of his order, but I feel that it is beyond me; and it would be best, therefore, that he should go his own way.

He may come to be a worthy soldier, and so justify me in allowing him to unfrock himself.
"As he is abiding in your castle, I pray you bid him present himself here, tomorrow.

I would fain speak to him, and give him such advice, concerning his future conduct, as may be of benefit to him." When Roger returned from the monastery, the next day, he wore a much more serious face than usual.
"The abbot has done me more good, by his talk this morning," he said to Oswald, "than by all the lectures and penances he has ever imposed on me.