For to-day Christ's Church stands upon the site of the place of sacrifice in Mexico, a sign and a token of His triumph over devils, and there it shall stand while the world endures.
'You speak rashly, my brother,' Guatemoc answered, proudly enough, though I saw him quail at the evil omen of my words.

'I say you speak rashly, and were you overheard there are those, notwithstanding the rank we have given you, the honour which you have won in war and council, and that you have passed the stone of sacrifice, who might force you to look again upon the faces of the beings you blaspheme.

What worse thing has been done to your Christian God than has been done again and again to our gods by your white kindred?
But let us talk no more of this matter, and I pray you, my brother, do not utter such ill-omened words to me again, lest it should strain our love.

Do you then believe that the Teules will return ?' 'Ay, Guatemoc, so surely as to-morrow's sun shall rise.

When you held Cortes in your hand you let him go, and since then he has won a victory at Otompan.