Beware, White Man, I am of this people, and you know their temper, it is not gentle; when they hate they find a means to be revenged," and she ceased, gasping with rage.
Indeed, at that moment Soa would have made no bad model for a statue of one of the furies of Greek mythology.
Then Juanna attempted to interfere, but Leonard waved her back.
"So," he said, "as I thought, you are at the bottom of all this business.

Perhaps you will not mind telling us what has become of your friends, the Settlement men, or, if you feel a delicacy on that point, how it is that you have escaped while they have vanished." "I know nothing of the Settlement men," answered the Fury, "except that they have been taken and sacrificed as was their meed, and as yet I have lifted no hand and said no word against you, though a breath from me would have swept you all to doom.

Hitherto I have been spared for the same reason that you and Bald-pate yonder have been spared--because we are the body-servants of the false gods, and are reserved to perish with them when the lie is discovered; or perhaps to live awhile, set in cages in the market-place, to be mocked by the passers-by and to serve as a warning to any whose monkey hearts should dare to plot sacrilege against the divinity of Aca and Jal.
"Now, Shepherdess, take your choice.

As you know well, I have loved you from a babe and I love you yet, though you have scorned me for this man's sake.

Take your choice, I say; cling to me and trust me, giving the Deliverer to the priests, and I will save you.