I ask that he may be freed and restored to his diocese with honour." "Barnabas," she replied sharply.

"I know the man.

He is an Iconoclast, and therefore my enemy.

Only this morning I signed an order that he should be kept in confinement till he died, here or elsewhere.

Still," she went on, "though I would sooner give you a province, have your gift, for I can refuse you nothing.