You have firearms and I am therefore defenceless against you.

Go and hang up your musket, your pistols, and your hunting-knife on that beech-tree, which is a hundred paces distant from the house; when you come back without your firearms I will believe that you do not want to kill me and will listen to what you have to say ?' "The robber fell into the snare and did as he was bid.

Then he returned.

'Here I am without weapons,' said he.

'Let me in!' "We had to gain as much time as possible, so I whispered Mariora to say that she must first stir up the fire into a blaze for she could not let him in in the dark.
"These words inflamed the passion of the tempter still more.
"'You will have time for that afterwards,' said he.