Odds! I care nothing as to your Catholic or Protestant, your popes or preachers.

Be done, and bear yourselves like men.

I will no longer have you vexing the air with controversy while our very lives are hanging by a thread.

There are other things to talk about just now.

So, Cairnes, if you cannot bide quietly in our company, then stay here alone while I take the Jesuit out into the sunlight, where we can hold sensible counsel together." Leaving the fellow growling to himself over the remnants of the meal, I bore the priest along the short passage, until we discovered a secure, comfortable resting-place outside, where our eyes could sweep the full extent of the wide valley.