"To my grief it is so.

But Rosamund knows nothing of this, and should never know it if you will keep a watch upon your tongue.

Moreover, you need not be jealous of me, before marriage or after." "What, then, would you have me do ?" asked Wulf hotly.

"Seek her heart, and perchance--though this I doubt--let her yield it to me, she thinking that you care naught for her ?" "Why not ?" asked Godwin again, with a sigh; "it might save her some pain and you some doubt, and make my own path clearer.
Marriage is more to you than to me, Wulf, who think sometimes that my sword should be my spouse and duty my only aim." "Who think, having a heart of gold, that even in such a thing as this you will not bar the path of the brother whom you love.

Nay, Godwin, as I am a sinful man, and as I desire her above all things on earth, I will play no such coward's game, nor conquer one who will not lift his sword lest he should hurt me.