Do thy worst; and tell thy master, that he loses more by my death than he can win by the lives of thirty thousand warriors." "Cease this idle babble," said the monk-inquisitor, contemptuously, "nor think thou couldst ever deceive, with thy empty words, the mighty intellect of Ferdinand of Spain.

Thou hast now to defend thyself against still graver charges than those of treachery to the king whom thou didst profess to serve.

Yea, misbeliever as thou art, it is thine to vindicate thyself from blasphemy against the God thou shouldst adore.

Confess the truth: thou art of the tribe and faith of Israel ?" The Hebrew frowned darkly.

"Man," said he, solemnly, "is a judge of the deeds of men, but not of their opinions.