“I would see if I could not dry up as many widows’ tears as I had golden pieces, and bring as many smiles to the lips of orphans as they should divide into silver.”
“Prithee, what good should that do thee?”
“It should keep mine heart warm in the chillest winter thereafter. But I thought rather of the good it should do them than me.”
“But what be such like folks to thee?”
“Our Lord died for them, and He is something to me.”
“Fate meant thee for a monk, Hylton. Thou rannest thine head against the wall to become a squire.”
“Be monks the sole men that love God?”
“They be the sole men that hold such talk.”
“I have known monks that held full different talk, I do ensure you. And I have known laymen that loved God as well as any monk that ever paced cloister.”
“Gramercy! do leave preaching of sermons. I have enow of them from my Lady my mother. Let’s be jolly, if we can.”