We should not do so if we wished you ill.

Here, among us, it is not an unheard-of thing for men to kill the creatures they love best on earth; nor do men blame them when, by so doing, they have served the cause of God, which is the welfare of mankind.

Thus it was of old the rule, approved of all the world, that every Sultan of the line of Othman had to kill his brothers lest they should rise against him and disturb the peace of all the realm.

Was it not like depriving life of all its sweetness thus to destroy their youth's companions and their nearest kin?
Yet, though their hearts were in the bodies of their victims, they achieved it.

And the victims met their death with the like fortitude, all save a few of less heroic mould.
'Now, I have read some histories written by the Europeans.