"Say to him, then, to his beard," continued Malvoisin, coolly, "that you love this captive Jewess to distraction; and the more thou dost enlarge on thy passion, the greater will be his haste to end it by the death of the fair enchantress; while thou, taken in flagrant delict by the avowal of a crime contrary to thine oath, canst hope no aid of thy brethren, and must exchange all thy brilliant visions of ambition and power, to lift perhaps a mercenary spear in some of the petty quarrels between Flanders and Burgundy."
Minél hevesebben beszélsz majd a szenvedélyedről, annál jobban fog sietni, hogy kitekerje a szép boszorkány nyakát. Te pedig, miután nyíltan elismerted, hogy megszegted a rend legfontosabb tilalmát, nem remélhetsz segítséget itteni testvéreidtől.