I will not answer thee." "Pause! We have means at hand that the strongest nerves and the stoutest hearts have failed to encounter.

Pause--confess!" "Thy threat awes me not," said the Hebrew; "but I am human; and since thou wouldst know the truth, thou mayst learn it without the torture.

I am of the same race as the apostles of thy Church--I am a Jew." "He confesses--write down the words.

Prisoner, thou hast done wisely; and we pray the Lord that, acting thus, thou mayst escape both the torture and the death.

And in that faith thy daughter was reared?
Answer." "My daughter! there is no charge against her! By the God of Sinai and Horeb, you dare not touch a hair of that innocent head!" "Answer," repeated the inquisitor, coldly.
"I do answer.