Reason did not act.

They were in such a state when just to say 'Italia! Italia!' gave them nerve to match an athlete.

So, the parading of Austria, the towering athlete, failed of its complete lesson of intimidation, and only ruffled the surface of insurgent hearts.

It seemed, and it was, an insult to the trodden people, who read it as a lesson for cravens: their instinct commonly hits the bell.

They felt that a secure supremacy would not have paraded itself: so they divined indistinctly that there was weakness somewhere in the councils of the enemy.