I love not the necessity nor the deed." "Yet it must be, Nigel.

Is there aught else save death, the death of a traitor, which can sufficiently chastise a crime like this?
Well was it the knave craved speech of Hereford himself.

I marvel whether the majesty of England had resisted a like temptation." "Seaton, he would not," answered the young man.

"I knew him, aye, studied him in his own court, and though I doubt not there was a time when chivalry was strongest in the breast of Edward, it was before ambition's fatal poison had corroded his heart.

Now he would deem all things honorable in the art of war, aye, even the delivery of a castle through the treachery of a knave." "And he hath more in yon host to think with him than with the noble Hereford," resumed Sir Christopher; "yet this is but idle parley, and concerneth but little our present task.