Dear Percy, what would you do ?" "I would seek him, Herbert," replied Percy, "where ever he is; by whom surrounded.

I would taunt him as a deceiving, heartless villain, and if he demand satisfaction, by heaven, it would be joy for me to give it!" "Has passion, then, indeed obtained so much ascendancy, it would be joy for you to meet him thus for blood ?" demanded Herbert, fixing his large, melancholy eyes intently on Percy's face, on which the cloud was becoming darker, and his step even more rapid.

"Would you seek him for the purpose of exciting anger like your own?
is it thus you would avenge my sister ?" "Thus, and only thus," answered Percy, with ungoverned fury.

"As others have done; man to man I would meet him, and villain as he is, I would have honourable vengeance for the insult, not only to my sister, but to us all.

Why should I stay my hand ?" "Why?
because on you more than on many others has the light of our blessed religion dawned," answered Herbert, calmly; "because you know what others think not of, that the law of our Master forbiddeth blood; that whosoever sheds it, on whatever plea, his shall be demanded in return; because you know, in seeking vengeance by blood, His law is disobeyed, and His vengeance you would call upon yourself.