I will be the demon to drive her from paradise in God's name, but not the serpent to entice her in the devil's name to sin." She paused, and, panting for breath, sunk back upon the cushion; but her father's hand was laid upon her shoulder with a convulsive grip, and pale with rage and with eyes flashing with anger, he stared at her.
A cry of terror burst from Lady Jane.

She, who never had seen her father but smiling and full of kindness, scarcely recognized that countenance, distorted with rage.

She could scarcely convince herself that this man, with eyes darting fire, scowling eyebrows and lips quivering with rage, was really her father.
"You will not ?" exclaimed he, with a hollow, threatening voice.

"You dare rebel against the holy commands of the Church?
Have you, then, forgotten what you promised to the Holy Fathers, whose pupil you are?
Have you forgotten that the brothers and sisters of the Holy League are permitted to have no other will than that of their masters! Have you forgotten the sublime vow which you made to our master, Ignatius Loyola?
Answer me, unfaithful and disobedient daughter of the Church! Repeat to me the oath which you took when he received you into the holy Society of the Disciples of Jesus! Repeat your oath, I say!" As if constrained by an invisible power, Jane had arisen, and now stood, her hands folded across her breast, submissive and trembling before her father, whose erect, proud, and wrathful form towered above her.
"I have sworn," said she, "to subject my own thought, and will, my life, and endeavors, obediently to the will of the Holy Father.

I have sworn to be a blind tool in the hands of my masters, and to do only what they command and enjoin.