When he has an object in view, all means are legitimate with him.

He knows neither consideration for others nor shame for his own misdeeds." "And yet he certainly played the coward before you." "Because he knows that I possess certain information, certain documentary evidence, by which, if I chose, I could hurl him down in confusion and disgrace from any height, however lofty, which he might succeed in attaining." "And you refrain from using this evidence against him ?" "To use it would be revenge," replied the young man, calmly.
"Is revenge forbidden where you live ?" "Yes." "Has your sister never found a balm for her wounded affections ?" "Never.

My people are of the kind that loves but once." "Pray tell me where it is that your people have their home," urged the princess.

"Is it on an island in the moon ?" "Indeed, princess, it is not unlike those glimpses of the moon that we get through a large telescope when we examine, for instance, the rocky island known to astronomers as 'Plutarch,' or that named 'Copernicus.' Everything where I live would seem to you to savour of another planet.
On the maps the place is put down as 'Toroczko.' It is in a mountain gorge, entered by a narrow path along the riverside and through a cleft in the rocks.

The northern side of this narrow ravine, being in some measure exposed to the southern sun, is clothed with woods; the southern is a great wall of bare rock rising in terraces, or giant steps, that might well suggest the dreariness and desolation of a landscape in the moon.