Remember there's wealth yonder which some may need more even than your lands," he added meaningly.

"Wait a while, then, till your people return or you can call up your tenants, and go to London as one of your quality should, with twenty good men at your back." "And so give our friend the Abbot time to get Cromwell's ear, and through him that of the King.

No, no; I ride to-morrow at the dawn with you, or, if you are afraid, without you, as I have done before and taken no harm." "None shall say that Jeffrey Stokes is afraid of man or priest or devil," answered the old soldier, colouring.

"Your road has been good enough for me this thirty years, and it is good enough now.

If I warned you it was not for my own sake, who care little what comes, but for yours and that of your house." "I know it," said Sir John more kindly.