Also I hate Ithobal, who threatened my life--as you did also, by the way--and will do my best to keep you from his clutches.

Now for my second point: it is that I can see little use in all this because Ithobal, being defrauded of you, will attack, and then----" "And then he may be beaten, Metem, for the citizens will at any rate fight for their lives, and the Prince Aziel here, who is a general skilled in war, will fight also if he has recovered strength----" "Do not fear, Elissa; give me two days, and I will fight to the death," said Aziel.
"At the least," she went on, "this scheme gives us breathing time, and who knows but that fortune will turn.

Or if it does not, since it is impossible for me to escape from the city, I have no better." "No more have I," said Metem, "for at length the oldest fox comes to his last double.

I could escape from this city, or the prince might escape, or the lady Elissa even might possibly escape disguised, but I am sure that all three of us could not escape, seeing that within the walls we are watched and without them the armies of Ithobal await us.

Oh! prince Aziel, I should have done well to go, as I might have gone when you and Issachar were taken after that mad meeting in the temple, from which I never looked for anything but ill; but I grow foolish in my old age, and thought that I should like to see the last of you.