"At least," he proceeded, "thou wert the first to ask me who I was; and if, when I reached out and caught thee, blind and sinking the last time, I, too, had thought of the many ways in which thou couldst be useful to me in my wretchedness, still the act was not all selfish; this I pray you to believe.

Moreover, seeing as God giveth me to know, the ends I dream of are to be wrought by fair means alone.

As a thing of conscience, I would rather die with thee than be thy slayer.

My mind is firmly set as thine; though thou wert to offer me all Rome, O tribune, and it belonged to thee to make the gift good, I would not kill thee.

Thy Cato and Brutus were as little children compared to the Hebrew whose law a Jew must obey." "But my request.