I stole you away, it is true, but I have done you no harm, and will do you none.

For your sake also I have spared your father when I had but to make a sign to remove him from my path.

I suffered him to escape from the prison where he was confined, and I know the place where he thinks himself hidden to-day among the Jews of Granada.

Also, I nursed Peter Brome back to life, when at any hour I could have let him die, lest afterwards I might have it on my conscience that, but for my love for you, he might perhaps still be living.

Well, you have seen him as he is, and what say you now?
Will you still reject me?
Look on me," and he drew up his tall and stately shape, "and tell me, am I such a man as a woman should be ashamed to own as husband?
Remember, too, that I have much to give you in this land of Spain, whereof you shall become one of the greatest ladies, or perhaps in the future," he added significantly, "even more.