"You will be hanged, burned, quartered!"
"No more nor less so than Aman and Aëlian, our prophets, Bagauders in their days as we are Vagres in ours. For all that, the poor say: 'Good Aëlian!' 'Good Aman!' May they some day say: 'Good Ronan!' I would die happy, Simon!"
"Always living in the recesses of the woods—"
"Verdure is so cheerful!"
"At the bottom of caverns—"
"It is warm there in winter, cool in summer!"
"Always on the alert; always on the run over hill and valley; always wandering without hearth or home—"
"But always living free, old Simon. Yes, free! free! instead of leading a slave's life under the whip of some Frankish master or some bishop! Join us, Simon!"
"I am too old for that!"
"Do you not hate your master, Bishop Cautin, and the whole seigniory?"