Then he went with Father Roger to Oxford , where he cleaned plates and carried cloaks and shoes for the scholars of a College called Merton . ` Did n't you hate that ? ' said Dan after a great many other questions . ' I never thought o n't . Half Oxford was building new colleges or beautifying the old , and she had called to her aid the master-craftsmen of all Christendie -- kings in their trade and honoured of Kings . I knew them . I worked for them : that was enough . No wonder -- ' He stopped and laughed . ` You became a great man , Hal , ' said Puck . ` They said so , Robin . Even Bramante said so . ' ` Why ? What did you do ? ' Dan asked . The artist looked at him queerly . ` Things in stone and such , up and down England . You would not have heard of 'em . To come nearer home , I rebuilded this little St Barnabas ' church of ours . It cost me more trouble and sorrow than aught I 've touched in my life . But 't was a sound lesson . '
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