While yet young, unfortunately handsome, I was dragged into a snare.

I resisted.
Ambushes and violences multiplied around me, but I resisted.

The religion I serve, the God I adore, were blasphemed because I called upon that religion and that God, but still I resisted.

Then outrages were heaped upon me, and as my soul was not subdued they wished to defile my body forever.

Finally--" Milady stopped, and a bitter smile passed over her lips.
"Finally," said Felton, "finally, what did they do ?" "At length, one evening my enemy resolved to paralyze the resistance he could not conquer.