So indeed it is--a very scurvy trick which I shall remember with shame to my life's end, and that perchance may yet fall back upon my head in blood and vengeance.

Yet bethink you how we stand, and forgive us.

We are but a little company of men in your great country, hidden, as it were, in a den of lions, who, if they saw us, would slay us without mercy.
That, indeed, is a small thing, for what are our lives, of which your sword has taken tithe, and not only yours, but those of the twin brethren on the quay by the water ?" "I thought it," broke in Sir Andrew contemptuously.

"Indeed, that deed was worthy of you--twenty or more men against two." Georgios held up his hand.
"Judge us not harshly," he said, speaking slowly, who, for his own ends wished to gain time, "you who have read the letter of our lord.

See you, these were my commands: To secure the lady Rose of the World as best I might, but if possible without bloodshed.