He wanted to kill it then, but I forbade him.

Yet he has never forgotten it, he who never does forget anything he hates, and that is why he sent for the poor beast." "The Augusta will remember that the Augustus did not know that the figs were poisoned." "The Augusta is sure that the Augustus knew well enough that those figs were poisoned, at any rate from the moment that I dashed one of them from your lips, Olaf.

Well, I have made a bitterer enemy than before, that's all.

They say that by Nature's rule mother and child must love each other, but it is a lie.

I tell you it's a lie.