human
Tell the king that we have spoken together, and give him this message if you will that I go to my place in Cornwall, and shall be there for a while.
gpt
Good are words that come from an honest heart. I have learned a lesson tonight where I thought to have learned none.
human
I marvel that you needed to learn that,
gpt
So do I, friend, answered Neot;
human
That is a wise man and a holy,
gpt
Ay, truly, answered the thane who had told me about him.
human
I mind when he and Alfred the king were the haughtiest and most overbearing of princes. But when Neot found out that his pride and wrath and strength were getting the mastery in his heart, he thrust himself down there to overcome them. So he grows more saintlike every day, and has wrought a wondrous change in the king himself. He is the only man to whom Alfred will listen in reproof.
gpt
That is likely, I said, not knowing aught of the holy bishops who were the king's counsellors;
human
He has taken vows on him, and is a hermit,