I have vowed to serve the holy Church, in which alone is salvation, in every way and with all the means at my command; and I will despise none of these means, consider none trifling, disdain none, provided it leads to the end.

For the end sanctifies the means, and nothing is a sin which is done for the honor of God and the Church!" "Ad majorem Dei gloriam!" said her father, devoutly folding his hands.
"And you know what awaits you, if you violate your oath ?" "Earthly disgrace and eternal destruction await me.

The curse of all my brethren and sisters awaits me--eternal damnation and punishment.

With thousands of torments and tortures of the rack, will the Holy Fathers put me to death; and as they kill my body and throw it as food to the beasts of prey, they will curse my soul and deliver it over to purgatory." "And what awaits you if you remain faithful to your oath, and obey the commands given you ?" "Honor and glory on earth, besides eternal blessedness in heaven." "Then you will be a queen on earth and a queen in heaven.

You know, then, the sacred laws of the society, and you remember your oath ?" "I remember it." "And you know that the holy Loyola, before he left us, gave the Society of Jesus, in England, a master and general, whom all the brethren and sisters must serve and submit to, to whom they owe blind obedience and service without questioning ?" "I know it." "And you know, likewise, by what sign the associates may recognize the general ?" "By Loyola's ring, which he wears on the forefinger of his right hand." "Behold here this ring!" said the earl, drawing his hand out of his doublet.
Lady Jane uttered a cry, and sank almost senseless at his feet.
Lord Douglas, smiling graciously, raised her in his arms.