Have you considered the fate which awaits you ?" "I have considered everything." "You will be buried; and, what is worse, you will be the keeper of your own prison." "I shall be a severe jailer, I promise you," with a grim smile responded the young man.
"Jester! You forget your twenty-six years! And who can tell how long you may be buried alive ?" "Have no fear for me.

I do not dread the task.

Those in power now will one day be overthrown." "But when the child, who is only twelve years old now, becomes in three or four years a blooming maiden--what then?
Already she is fond of you; then she will love you.

You cannot hinder it; and yet, you will not even dare to dream of returning her love.

Have you thought of this also ?" "I shall look upon myself as the inhabitant of a different planet," answered the young man.
"Your hand, my friend! You have undertaken a noble task--one that is greater than that of the captive knight who cut off his own foot, that his sovereign, who was chained to him, might escape--" "Pray say no more about me," interposed his companion.