"And the whole affair blown all over the country—how would you appear?"
"I know not, and care not, so he is cleared; Heaven grant I may be the only sufferer! I am willing to take the infamy."
"You would be held up before the world as an ingrate, a domestic traitress, and unnatural monster. You would be hated of all—your name and history become a tradition of almost impossible wickedness."
"Ha! why, do you think that in such an hour as this I care for myself? No, no! no, no! Heaven grant that it may be as you say—that my brother be acquitted, and I only may suffer! I am willing to suffer shame and death for him whom I denounce! Let me go, Paul; I have lost too much time here."
"Will nothing induce you to abandon this wicked purpose?"
"Nothing on earth, Paul!"
"Nothing?"
"No! so help me Heaven! Give way—let me go, Paul."
"You must not go, Miriam."
"I must and will—and that directly. Stand aside."