But the priest refused this charity.
"Let me die before the altar," he said, "where I may set my eyes upon Him whom I have betrayed afresh," and he pointed to the carved ivory crucifix which hung above it.

"Oh! be warned, be warned, my brethren," he went on in a wailing voice.

"You are all of you still young; you may be led astray as I was by the desire for power, by the hope of wealth.
You may sell yourselves to the wicked as I did, I who once was good and strove toward the right.

If Satan tempts you thus, then remember Nicholas the priest, and his dreadful death, and see how he pays his servants.

The plague has taken others, yet they have died at peace, but I, I die in hell before I see its fires." "Not so," said Hugh, "you have repented, and I, against whom you have sinned perhaps more than all, forgive you, as I am sure my lady would, could she know." "Then it is more than I do," muttered Grey Dick to himself.