"A poor devil—a youth, a lad who has been bastilled these ten years, for two Latin verses he made against the Jesuits."
"'Two Latin verses!' and, for 'two Latin verses,' the miserable being has been in prison for ten years!"
"'Yes!"
"And has committed no other crime?"
"Beyond this he is as innocent as you or I."
"On your word?"
"On my honor!"
"And his name is—?"
"Seldon."
"Yes.—But it is too bad. You knew this, and you never told me!"