“Hatred is of itself passive.”
“Still it may instigate the hand to urge the dagger home.”
“Then I must yield to his passions, an act against which my soul recoils.”
“His death were worth any sacrifice. Had I a thousand reputations I would relinquish them all to see him dead before me.”
“You sanction, then, my infamy?”
“It will be neutralised by the event. If it bring retribution upon the head of our father’s destroyer it will be a filial oblation, and do you everlasting honour.”
“The sacrifice shall be made, and may the desired issue be speedy! It is, however, a hard thing to dissemble in the presence of an object whom the heart loathes; how shall I endure the caresses of such a man?”
“As sick men take bitters, for the cure they bring. It will heal thy hatred, sister, by removing the cause of it, and will not that be your sufficient reward?”
“It is like making one pass to paradise through a path of fire.”
“Remember that when the paradise is gained you have all joy and no more suffering.”