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It is natural that his own people should love and honor him as their great leader and defender in a struggle of intense bitterness that his old enemies should share this profound regard and admiration is due solely to the character of the individual.
And each one of the tears that is shed above there falls glowing upon my breast.... And my breast rises in a convulsive struggle but the coffin lid pushes it back. I strain my head against the wood to burst it, but it lies upon me like a mountain. My body seems to burn. To protect it I burrow in the saw-dust which fills mouth and eyes with its biting chaff.
The history and the termination of this struggle will form the subject of the two following chapters. Britannicus and Acte. Indignation of Agrippina. Otho and Senecio. Perplexity of Nero's ministers. They determine to connive at Nero's new connection. Agrippina is greatly enraged. Her furious invectives. She becomes calm again. Agrippina changes her policy. Nero rejects his mother's advances.
For a country that was not he had given himself as surely as the men who were buried where they fought, and his future would be but one long struggle to adjust himself to conditions in which he had no part. His proper nature was compacted of the old life which was gone forever of its ease, of its gayety, of its lavish pleasures.
The Countess made an involuntary sign of denial, but her face had grown white and drawn with the struggle to maintain the composure that she did not feel, and no tremor was lost on the merciless prosecutor.
He got no further, for at that moment Ralph sprang at him like a wild cat, stopping his foul mouth with a fearful blow upon the lips. Then there followed a dreadful struggle between these two.
Hidden there at last, safe from the prying eyes of searchers, should they miss their fellow and return for him, the lad choked the life from the body of his victim. At last he knew by the sudden struggle, followed by limp relaxation, that the warrior was dead. Then a strange desire seized him. His whole being quivered and thrilled.
Since then, and indeed all along, the struggle in Ireland itself has been almost wholly an agrarian one. The love of and desire for the land, rather than for any particular political development, is what there dominates the situation. A heavy fall of prices has led to a widespread refusal to pay rent, save at a considerable abatement upon the already reduced Government valuations.
He laughed instead, partly with pleasure at the thought of the struggle he scented in the air, and partly at his own braggadocio. "I'm not afraid," he said, smiling, and shaking his head at the white ship that loomed up like a man-of-war in the black waters. "I'm not afraid to fight you for anything worth fighting for."
He felt for the weapon of which he had been so suddenly deprived, fumbled with impotent haste for the handle of his tomahawk, and at the same moment glanced his eyes after the flying cattle, with the longings of a Western Indian. The struggle between thirst for vengeance and cupidity was severe but short.
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