But if love and the joys of life should leave you, then come back, and we will talk again.
Go on, pure knight of Christ, fearing nothing and sure of the reward, and take with you the blessing of Christ and of his Church." "What penance must I bear, father ?" "Such souls as yours inflict their own penance.

The saints forbid that I should add to it," was the gentle answer.
Then with a lightened heart Godwin returned to the altar rails, while his brother Wulf was summoned to take his place in the confessional.

Of the sins that he had to tell we need not speak.
They were such as are common to young men, and none of them very grievous.

Still, before he gave him absolution, the good Prior admonished him to think less of his body and more of his spirit; less of the glory of feats of arms and more of the true ends to which he should enter on them.

He bade him, moreover, to take his brother Godwin as an earthly guide and example, since there lived no better or wiser man of his years, and finally dismissed him, prophesying that if he would heed these counsels, he would come to great glory on earth and in heaven.
"Father, I will do my best," answered Wulf humbly; "but there cannot be two Godwins; and, father, sometimes I fear me that our paths will cross, since two men cannot win one woman." "I know the trouble," answered the Prior anxiously, "and with less noble-natured men it might be grave.