His great plan known to this man, this man who feared not even torture, or death, or the world to come! He shrank visibly both mentally and physically, but then his courage came back under the spur of dreadful necessity.
"A priest can take great liberties," he said.

"Sometimes I think it scarcely fair that you of the Book may denounce us of the sword and that we may say nothing in return, although we may be right and you may be wrong.

It is sufficient now for me to tell you that I do not know what you are talking about.

I, the Governor General! Any man may dream of that! I have done so, and I have no doubt that many others have done the same.

I favor, too, an alliance with England, as do nearly all the Spanish officers in Louisiana, but I am a faithful servant of His Majesty, the King, and though I may hold my opinions, I know of no plot, either against Bernardo Galvez or to make a war upon Kaintock." "I have heard you, Francisco Alvarez," said the priest, "but it is for your actions to prove the truth of your words.