East and west through the land,

Here a villa to raze—there a convent ablaze—

With rifling of treasure:

My pleasure!——”

“The devil must be in the boy ... his pleasure!”

“And then we are gone!—

Ride on! ever on,

New adventures to seek—

My path it is marked by the steel and the fire—

On, on, ever on, let me hasten—nor tire,