And now what is the use of it ?" "No use at all," answered the Fray coolly, "except to me who pocket my ten gold pieces." "A thousand doubloons if our friend escapes safe and sound," put in the old Jew Israel.

"God in Heaven! think of it, a thousand doubloons." The secretary's eyes gleamed hungrily.
"I could do with them well enough," he answered, "and hell could spare one filthy Jew for ten years or so, but I see no way.

What I do see, is that probably all of you will join him.

It is a great crime to try to tamper with a servant of the Holy Office." Bernaldez turned white, and the old Jew bit his nails; but Inez tapped the priest upon the shoulder.
"Are you thinking of betraying us ?" she asked in her gentle voice.
"Look here, friend, I have some knowledge of poisons, and I swear to you that if you attempt it, you shall die within a week, tied in a double knot, and never know whence the dose came.

Or I can bewitch you, I, who have not lived a dozen years among the Moors for nothing, so that your head swells and your body wastes, and you utter blasphemies, not knowing what you say, until for very shame's sake they toast you among the faggots also." "Bewitch me!" answered Henriques with a shiver.