It was hard to read its look; yet I thought there came a gleam of anger into it when I spoke of the peril they lay in from death by sickness in that noisome prison.

After all, they are all scholars of his own college; and methinks he and the bishop have disagreed ere this over matters of discipline, and where mercy rather than judgment should be shown.

All the world says that Master Garret and Robert Ferrar would have been sent to the stake had the bishop's word prevailed, but that the cardinal would not give them up to him.

It may be that he will be loath to give up Master Clarke and his friends; but surely the cardinal's word would prevail, if he desired to make it." "And if the bishop has a victim, that might satisfy him," spoke Dalaber gravely.
"Thou art thinking of thyself ?" asked Arthur quickly.
"Why should I not?
I have offered myself as a substitute.

If they permit the exchange, I will not draw back." Arthur regarded him with a species of admiration.