I swear it by Him Who died for us.

I swear that, laying aside all other ends, to that sole purpose I will devote my days.

Yes, and should you chance to pass from earth before me, then I will follow you to the very gates of death and clasp you there." Now again Margaret's fear returned to her.

This man's passion was terrible, yet there was a grandeur in it; Peter had never spoken to her in so high a fashion.
"Senor," she said almost pleadingly, "corpses are poor brides; have done with such sick fancies, which surely must be born of your Eastern blood." "It is your blood also, who are half a Jew, and, therefore, at least you should understand them." "Mayhap I do understand, mayhap I think them great in their own fashion, yes, noble even, and admire, if it can be noble to seek to win away another man's betrothed.

But, Senor, I am that man's betrothed, and all of me, my body and my soul, is his, nor would I go back upon my word, and so break his heart, to win the empire of the earth.