But think not you will always thus escape.

No, you may pursue your evil course for a while--you, and your companion in crime; but a day of retribution will arrive for both--a day when ye shall be devoured, living, by flames of fire--when all your sins shall arise before your eyes, and ye shall have no time for repentance--and when ye shall pass from one fierce fire to another yet fiercer, and wholly unquenchable!" As he concluded, he again dashed her against the wall with such violence that she fell senseless upon the ground.
"And now," he said, turning to Nizza Macascree, who looked on in alarm and surprise, "what can I do for you ?" "Bear this youth to a place of safety," was her answer.
Solomon Eagle answered by lifting up the pallet upon which Leonard was laid, with as much ease as if it had been an infant's cradle, and calling on Nizza to bring the torch, passed with his burden through the secret door.

Directing her to close it after them, he took his way alone a narrow stone passage, until he came to a chink in the wall commanding a small chamber, and desired her to look through it.

She obeyed, and beheld, stretched upon a couch, the corpse of a man.
"It is Mr.Quatremain, the minor canon," she said, retiring.
"It is," returned Solomon Eagle, "and it will be supposed that he died of the plague.

But his end was accelerated by Judith Malmayns." Without allowing her time for reply, he pursued his course, traversing another long, narrow passage.
"Where are we ?" asked Nizza, as they arrived at the foot of a spiral stone staircase.
"Beneath the central tower of the cathedral," replied Solomon Eagle.