“How if I kill you both?”
“The bond will hold,” said Fax.
“Come, is a bond everlasting then, shall nothing break it?”
“Neither everlasting, nor to be broken.”
“What then?”
“It shall be fulfilled.”
“Can nothing amend it?”
“Nothing,” said Fax.
“Nothing? Nothing? Fools!” laughed the King, “the woman is happy, and desires not to leave me!”
Tanil stood bowed in silence and shame, and Cumac turned upon him. “What says this rude passionate beast!” The King’s anger rose like a blast among oaks. “Has he no talk of bonds, this toad that crawled into my heart and drank my living blood? Has he nothing to restore? or gives he and takes he at the will of the wind?”