Then he looked up, saying: "And now ?" "Now," answered Godwin, "I know not.

Yet it seems to me that I hear the sound of my own feet walking upon cloister stones, and of my own voice lifted up in prayer before the altar." "You are still young to talk thus, and though Rosamund be lost to you and Masouda dead, there are other women in the world," said Egbert.
Godwin shook his head.
"Not for me, my father." "Then there are the knightly Orders, in which you might rise high." Again he shook his head.
"The Templars and the Hospitallers are crushed.

Moreover, I watched them in Jerusalem and the field, and love them not.
Should they change their ways, or should I be needed to fight against the Infidel, I can join them by dispensation in days to come.

But counsel me--what shall I do now ?" "Oh! my son," the old bishop said, his face lighting up, "if God calls you, come to God.

I will show you the road." "Yes, I will come," Godwin answered quietly.