I need not repeat the arguments which occurred to me against this, they being the same mentioned before; but though I had other reasons to offer now—viz. that those men were enemies to my life, and would devour me if they could; that it was self-preservation, in the highest degree, to deliver myself from this death of a life, and was acting in my own defence as much as if they were actually assaulting me, and the like; I say though these things argued for it, yet the thoughts of shedding human blood for my deliverance were very terrible to me, and such as I could by no means reconcile myself to for a great while.
Másrészről aggasztott a kérdés, mennyire jogos egy ilyen kegyetlen vérontás, még ha a saját érdekemben teszem is. Újra felmerültek bennem a már ismerős érvek, amelyek a támadás mellett szóltak, mégsem tudták elhomályosítani bennem azt az érzést, hogy bűn lenne vérontás útján elérni a megszabadulásomat.