Fate has brought me among you, though not of my own will, and I have been forced to bear the sight of much evil, but I have wrought none.

I have shriven the dying, I have ministered to the sick, I have comforted the oppressed, but I have taken no share of the price of blood.

I am a priest of our holy Church, and if I wed these two before the sight of men, they will be husband and wife till death, and I shall have set the seal of the blessing of the Church upon an act of shame.

I will not do it." "You will not do it, you shaveling traitor ?" screamed Pereira in a voice hoarse with rage.

"Do you want to follow your brother then?
Look here, my friend, either you obey me and marry these two or----" and he hissed a horrible threat.
"NO, no," said Leonard, anxious to find an escape from this abominable mockery.