You teach him our designs, and labor to thwart them yourself.
Hear me, girl! you know me well--you know I never threaten without execution.

I can understand how it is that a spirit, feeling at this moment as does your own, should defy death.

But, bethink you--is there nothing in your thought which is worse than death, from the terrors of which, the pure mind, however fortified by heroic resolution, must still shrink and tremble?
Beware, then, how you chafe me.

Say where the youth has gone, and in this way retrieve, if you can, the error which taught you to connive at his escape." "I know not what you mean, and have no fears of anything you can do.

On this point I feel secure, and bid you defiance.