I am your only chance of freedom.

Take me, and you have the world at your feet.
Refuse me, and you will languish in this hideous place so long as your affectionate father pleases." "Do you know my father so little, sir," asked Hedwig very proudly, "as to suppose that his daughter will ever yield to force ?" "It is one thing to talk of not yielding, and it is quite another to bear prolonged suffering with constancy," returned Benoni coolly, as though he were discussing a general principle instead of expounding to a woman the fate she had to expect if she refused to marry him.

"I never knew anyone who did not talk bravely of resisting torture until it was applied.

Oh, you will be weak at the end, countess, believe me.
You are weak now; and changed, though perhaps you would be better pleased if I did not notice it.

Yes, I smile now,--I laugh.