It stirred him to love his friend with all his warmth.

'At any rate, for my sake, Luciano, you will respect and uphold her.' 'Yes, while she's true,' said Luciano, unsatisfactorily.

The regiment, in review uniform, followed by two pieces of artillery, passed by.

Then came a squadron of hussars and one of Uhlans, and another foot regiment, more artillery, fresh cavalry.
'Carlo, if three generations of us pour out our blood to fertilize Italian ground, it's not too much to pay to chase those drilled curs.' Luciano spoke in vehement undertone.
'We 'll breakfast and have a look at them in the Piazza d'Armi, and show that we Milanese are impressed with a proper idea of their power,' said Carlo, brightening as he felt the correction of his morbid lover's anger in Luciano's reaching view of their duties as Italian citizens.

The heat and whirl of the hour struck his head, for to-morrow they might be wrestling with that living engine which had marched past, and surely all the hate he could muster should be turned upon the outer enemy.