With all his audacity, he won't dare to enter the house when he finds we are there." "Is it your pleasure that we should thrust a halberd through his body, or lodge a bullet in his brain ?" asked Gregory, appealing to Amabel.
"Touch him not, I beseech you," she rejoined.

"Leonard, I have your promise that, if I can prevail upon him to depart, you will not molest him." "You have," he replied.
"You hear that," she observed to the watchmen.
"We are all obedience," said Gregory.
"Bless your tender heart!" cried Boutefeu, "we would not pain you for the world." "A truce to this," said Leonard.

"Come to the yard, we will wait for him there." "I will go with you," cried Amabel.

"If any harm should befall him, I should never forgive myself." "Remember what I told you," rejoined Leonard, sternly; "it depends upon yourself whether he leaves the house alive." "Heed him not," whispered Gregory.

"I and my comrade will obey no one but you." Amabel could not repress an exclamation of surprise.
"What are you muttering, sirrah ?" demanded Leonard, angrily.
"Only that the young lady may depend on our fidelity," replied Gregory.
"There can be no offence in that.