Thus each vessel had a complement of seven knights and thirty Christians, and to these were added ten of the thirty Moslems found at the oars, and fifteen of the pirates to whom quarter had been given.
It was past noon before all these arrangements had been made, and during the time so occupied, the ships lay idly side by side, drifting slowly before the wind, the sails having been lowered as soon as the struggle was over.

Up to this time, the knights had been too busily engaged to think of food, but they were right glad when they were summoned to a meal on board the galley.
Gervaise found the three knights in the cabin, dressed in the usual attire of the Order.

They presented a very different appearance, indeed, to that which they wore when he had first seen them.

They had bathed, and combed their matted hair, which was alone sufficient to transform them, but the feeling that they were once more free men, and knights of an honoured Order, had done even more to effect the change; and although they looked thin and worn, the martial bearing had come back naturally as they donned their knightly robes and buckled on swords.
"I am glad to see that you are better," Gervaise said, as he went up to greet them.

"Twenty years seem to have dropped off your shoulders since this morning." "We are not the same men, Sir Gervaise.