I called down Heaven's curse upon him, and left him and came home.

Do you wonder, senor, that I found it hard to spare those Frenchmen for whom you pleaded?
Do you wonder that I, a man of peace, lead out my villagers to slaughter our enemy ?" "I do not, indeed!" Jack exclaimed warmly.

"Such acts as these would stir the blood of the coldest into fire; and, priest or no priest, a man would be less than a man who did not try to take vengeance for so foul a deed.

Have many massacres of this sort been perpetrated ?" "Many," the priest replied, "and in no case has any redress been obtained by the relatives of the victims." "And throughout all Arragon, does the same hatred of the French prevail ?" "Everywhere," the priest said.
"Then King Charles would meet with an enthusiastic welcome here!" "I do not say that," the priest answered.

"He would be well received, doubtless, simply because he is the enemy of the French; but for himself, no.