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HEKEWABD, THE LAST OF THE ENGLISH. 195

** But now I am of a sounder mind. I see now why I was
kept from being knighted, — till I had done a deed worthy of a
true knight; till I had mightily avenged the wronged, and
mightily succored the oppressed ; till I had purged my soul of
my enmity against my own kin, and could go out into the world a
new man, with my mother's blessing on my head."

"But not of the robbery of St. Peter," said Herluin. The
French monk wanted not for moral courage, — no French monk
did in those days. And he proved it by those words.
