“Call him Judas if you wantbut he did it for reasonsmuch older than silver.”

“The last time Ranulf had run into Sulien, the older man had called him a misbegotten English Judas and spat onto the ground at his feet. Yet now that same man was approaching the bed with a jovial smile, so apparently pleased to see the Judas again that Ranulf half-expected him to announce that a fatted calf had been killed in his honor.”

“And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?”

“Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.”

“It's funny, I don't feel any older than I did when I was twenty. But I know I am, because recently some twenty-year-old called me 'sir.' Sometimes the only way you know you are getting older is by the way others treat you.”

“he is not a member of us who does not show the mercy to smaller than him and respect to the older.”