You are getting as cautious as an apple-wife, Gawain." "When I set out on a business I like to weigh it, that I may know how much is to be charged to my own wits and how much I must leave to God.
To-night it would appear that the Almighty must hold us very tight by the hand.

Well, I am ready when I have I drunk another cup of wine." He drew his sword and lovingly fingered its edge, whistling all the while.
Gaspard went to the door and looked into the street.

The city was still strangely quiet.

No roysterers swaggered home along the pavements, no tramp of cuirassiers told of the passage of a great man.

But again he had the sense that hot fires were glowing under these cold ashes.