I will bring such gems and gold as we can carry, so I shall not be a bride without a dower.

You promise to send for me, do you not, Roger ?" "Certainly I do," Roger said, pressing her to him; "if I quit this land alive, you shall accompany me.

I should be unworthy of your love, indeed, Amenche, were I to prove faithless to you now.

I regard you as being as truly my wife, as if we were already married." A short time afterwards Bathalda entered, and said that a number of soldiers were gathering in the courtyard, that some priests were among them, and that they were talking loudly about carrying the white man to Mexico, as a sacrifice to appease the wrath of the gods.
"There is no time to be lost," Cuitcatl said.

"You had best go, Roger, before they surround the house and make escape impossible.