I have said that for you I would brave all dangers.

To save your lover, I brave the scaffold.

If I am betrayed, or if the story transpire, my head will assuredly fall in the place of Lesperon's.

This I will risk, mademoiselle--I will do it gladly--if you will promise to become my wife when it is done." There was a moan from Roxalanne, then silence; then--"Oh, monsieur, you are pitiless! What bargain is this that you offer me ?" "A fair one, surely," said that son of hell--"a very fair one.

The risk of my life against your hand in marriage." "If you--if you truly loved me as you say, monsieur," she reasoned, "you would serve me without asking guerdon." "In any other thing I would.