I come to ask you to forgive me anything you may have to forgive.

I have been your enemy since I first saw you: but I have been an honest and open enemy; and now I am your enemy no longer.

I ask you to shake hands with me.

I have been warned not to come within arm's length of you, chained as you are.

But I am not afraid of you." The Major came and sat on the bed-place beside him.
"As for that little animal," said George Hawker, pointing to the governor as he stood at the further end of the cell, "if he comes within reach of me, I'll beat his useless little brains out against the wall, and he knows it.