"Oh, think not of my matters," interrupted Richard, almost sharply. "How could I have left him?  And how could we be urgent to him to fly when we could not know what extraordinary impulse one of his virtue or courage may have had on his mind?  Forget not how he did answer to your entreaties, saying that he would not stir a foot, nor turn his back as though he repented he had been engaged in that great work, or were ashamed of the service of so glorious and great a God!  We could not seek to change such a resolve."