"You have deserved my displeasure, you have desired to be a free man, to cast aside the yoke that Providence placed upon you, you had the grand presumption to dare to be the master of your own actions." "And does your majesty desire and expect me to resign this most natural of human rights ?" said the prince, angrily.
"Yes, I desire and expect it.

I can truthfully say that I have given my brothers a good example in this particular." "But you did not do this willingly.

You were cruelly forced to submission, and you now wish to drive us to an extremity you have, doubtlessly, long since forgotten.

Now, you suffered and struggled before declaring yourself conquered." "No," said the king, softly, "I have not forgotten.

I still feel the wound in my soul, and at times it burns." "And yet, my brother ?" "And yet I will have no pity with you.