Would she have chosen me, or any man, for her messenger, if it had not appeared to her a matter of life and death?
You count me among your friends.' 'One of the truest.' 'Here are two, then, and your own good sense.

For I do not believe it to be a question of courage.' 'He has commenced.

Let him carry it out,' said Diana.
Her desperation could have added the cry--And give me freedom! That was the secret in her heart.

She had struck on the hope for the detested yoke to be broken at any cost.
'I decline to meet his charges.

I despise them.