CHAPTER IX“He shall be buried,” the Grand Master said, “with all the honour his deeds deserve, for it was a most valorous act to so stand his ground when the line sagged, and against one of Hassan’s repute, he having, as we may say, but one arm.
“I have a confident hope that God allowed him thus to assoil his soul, putting aside the feeble counsel he gave before, which came, as I suppose, from the lecherous life which he then led, by which devils had entrance to whisper behind his ear. But we may hope that he had also renounced that lechery from his soul, its cause having been vanished away.”
He said this in Sir Oliver’s room, Del Monte also being there. He was exultant at the great success of the last day, for if they had to provide for the burial of two hundred who had been slain, incl
