"He is not one to forget," he said gravely.

"I fear you will hear of that again, Messer Blondel.

I fear it will make trouble for you.

But if these will not, is there any man in Geneva, any man you can name, who would give his life for you ?" "Do men give life so easily ?" Blondel answered, moving painfully in his chair.
"Yet you will give yours for them! You will give yours! And who will be a ducat the better ?" "I shall at least die for freedom," the Syndic muttered, gnawing his moustache.
"A word!" "For the religion, then." "It is that which men make it!" the scholar retorted.

"There have been good men of all religions, though we dare not say as much in public, or in Geneva.