Prince, while you remain in this city there is no hope of peace.

Do not, therefore, hate me, your servant, if I pray of you to leave us while there is yet time." "Sakon," answered Aziel, "I thank you for your open speech, and will pay you back in words as honest as your own.

Gladly would I go, for here nothing but sorrow has befallen me, were it not for one thing which to you may seem little, but to me, and perhaps to another, is all in all.

I love your daughter as I have never loved a woman before, and as my mind is to hers, so is hers to mine.

How, then, can I go hence when the going means that I must part from her for ever ?" "How can you stay here, Prince, when the staying means that you must bring her to shame and death, and yourself with her?
Say now, are you prepared, for the sake of this maiden, to abandon the worship of your fathers and to become the servant of El and Baaltis ?" "You know well that I am not so prepared, Sakon.