"Is it thus you comfort yourself, my father ?" he exclaimed.

"Ralph," added he, in tones thick with passion, "all my life till now I served my father, and never failed in my duty to him.

Henry, my brother, rebelled, and died in his rebellion while I was a child.
Geoffrey rebelled too, and is dead.

Richard for years has been in arms against his parent.

I, of all his sons, have never lifted hand against him.