Be never feared of that.

Yet I thought on our mother's loneliness.

She will miss me sore, for she fleeched and pled with me not to come, yet I would not listen to her." Sholto stood by the door, erect as if on duty at Thrieve.
"Come and sit with us," said the Earl William kindly to him, "we are no more master and servant, earl and esquire.

We are but three youths that are to die together, and the axe's edge levels all.

You, Sholto, are in some good chance to live the longest of the three by some half score of minutes.