"I know not. Christ commands mercy."
"Thou hast answered excellently. Think of this always, or thou wilt fry in hell like a sausage in a frying-pan."
Ursus sighed, and Chilo thought that he could always do what he liked with that man, who was terrible at the moment of his first outburst. So, wishing to know what happened at the seizing of Lygia, he asked further, in the voice of a stern judge,—"How did ye treat Croton? Speak, and do not prevaricate."
