"Yet, once more, I charge thee choose; accept the terms I proffer--be mine--and thou art saved from all further torture thyself, and Stanley lives.

Refuse, and the English minion dies; and when thou and I next meet, it will be where torture and executioners wait but my nod to inflict such suffering that thou wilt die a thousand deaths in every pang.

And, Jewess--unbeliever as thou art--who will dare believe it more than public justice, or accuse me of other than the zeal, which the service of Christ demands?
Choose, and quickly--wilt thou accept my proffers, and be mine?
Thou must, at last.

What avails this idle folly of tempting torture first ?" "Thou mayest kill my body, but thou canst not pollute my soul," was the instant reply, and its tones were unchanged.

"And as for Stanley, his life or death is not in thine hands; but if it were, I could not--nay, thus I _would_ not--save him.