Would you have me marry a traitor and a coward?
I have spoken." "No," again shouted the majority of the soldiers.
Then in the silence that followed the old captain replied, with a canniness that was almost Scotch: "On the point raised by you, O Child of Kings, I give no opinion, since you, being but a woman, if a high-born one, would not listen to me if I did, but will doubtless follow that heart of yours of which you speak to whatever end is appointed.

Settle the matter with your betrothed Joshua as you will.

But we also have a matter to settle with Joshua, who is a toad with a long tongue that if he seems slow yet never misses his fly.
We took up your cause, and have killed a great number of his people, as he has killed some of ours.

This he will not forget.

Therefore it seems to me that it will be wise that we should make what we can of the nest that we have built, since it is better to die in battle than on the gallows.