Better that you should die, who are but one, than all of us and others, for you will understand that we cannot trust you.

Has any one got a rope ?" Now Henriques grovelled on the ground before her, kissing the hem of her robe, and praying her in the name of all the saints to show pity on one who had been betrayed into this danger by love of her.
"Of money you mean, Toad," she answered, kicking him with her slippered foot.

"I had to listen to your talk of love while we journeyed together, and before, but here I need not, and if you speak of it again you shall go living into that baker's oven.

Oh! you have forgotten it, but I have a long score to settle with you.

You were a familiar of the Holy Office here at Seville--were you not ?--before Morella promoted you to Motril for your zeal, and made you one of his chaplains?
Well, I had a sister," And she knelt down and whispered a name into his ear.
He uttered a sound--it was more of a scream than a gasp.
"I had nothing to do with her death," he protested.