We will go to Palestine, where Conrade, Marquis of Montserrat, is my friend--a friend free as myself from the doting scruples which fetter our free-born reason--rather with Saladin will we league ourselves, than endure the scorn of the bigots whom we contemn.--I will form new paths to greatness," he continued, again traversing the room with hasty strides--"Europe shall hear the loud step of him she has driven from her sons!--Not the millions whom her crusaders send to slaughter, can do so much to defend Palestine--not the sabres of the thousands and ten thousands of Saracens can hew their way so deep into that land for which nations are striving, as the strength and policy of me and those brethren, who, in despite of yonder old bigot, will adhere to me in good and evil.
Az is lehet, hogy Szaladin szultánnal szövetkezünk - még az is jobb, mint eltűrni a vakbuzgók, a fanatikusok megrovásait... azokét, akiket utálunk és megvetünk! Új utakat vágunk a nagyság és dicsőség felé! - folytatta nekilelkesedve, és gyorsan fel-alá szaladgált megint a szobában. - Európa még meghallja azoknak a döngő lépteit, akiket kitaszított fiai sorából.