So I am found out! How little we know what God intends!" "You speak of God?
You blaspheme!" "Bear with me for a space.

I shall not hold you long." "But why?
What have I done to you that you should wreck all I hold dear ?" "For you I have always had a strong affection, strange as it may sound." Herbeck fumbled with his collar, which was tightening round his throat like a band of hot iron.

"I have practically governed this country for sixteen years.

In that time I have made it prosperous and happy; I have given you a substantial treasury; I have made you an army; I have brought peace where you would have brought war.

To my people God will witness that I have done my duty as I saw it.