Thou hast been trained from thy post by some deep guile--some well-devised stratagem--the cry of some distressed maiden has caught thine ear, or the laughful look of some merry one has taken thine eye.

Never blush for it; we have all been led aside by such gear.

Come, I pray thee, make a clean conscience of it to me, instead of the priest.

Richard is merciful when his mood is abated.

Hast thou nothing to entrust to me ?" The unfortunate knight turned his face from the kind warrior, and answered, "NOTHING." And De Vaux, who had exhausted his topics of persuasion, arose and left the tent, with folded arms, and in melancholy deeper than he thought the occasion merited--even angry with himself to find that so simple a matter as the death of a Scottish man could affect him so nearly.
"Yet," as he said to himself, "though the rough-footed knaves be our enemies in Cumberland, in Palestine one almost considers them as brethren.".