―Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves,

Through the dear might⁠ ⁠…

―Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Through the dear might⁠ ⁠…

―Turn over, Stephen said quietly. I don’t see anything.

―What, sir? Talbot asked simply, bending forward.

His hand turned the page over. He leaned back and went on again having just remembered. Of him that walked the waves. Here also over these craven hearts his shadow lies and on the scoffer’s heart and lips and on mine. It lies upon their eager faces who offered him a coin of the tribute. To Caesar what is Caesar’s, to God what is God’s. A long look from dark eyes, a riddling sentence to be woven and woven on the church’s looms. Ay.