Old Tom has only gone on a little way before the rest.

And many went before him." The voice had become shrill and hard.

He was speaking to himself.
"The best--the very best.

My brave young Walter, and Cosmor and Piggot and John Talbot and Ned Coffyn....

Ned was your kinsman, Jasper ?" "My cousin--the son of my mother's brother." The man spoke, like Raleigh, in a Devon accent, with the creamy slur in the voice and the sing-song fall of West England.
"Ah, I remember.