I desired not to be thought formidable by the patricians, in order that, quietly and unsuspected, I might make my way amongst the people.

I have done so; I now throw aside the mask.

Face to face with Stephen Colonna, I could tell him, this very hour, that I brave his anger; that I laugh at his dungeons and armed men.

But if he think me the same Rienzi as of old, let him; I can wait my hour." "Yet," said Adrian, waiving an answer to the haughty language of his companion, "tell me, what dost thou ask for the people, in order to avoid an appeal to their passions ?--ignorant and capricious as they are, thou canst not appeal to their reason." "I ask full justice and safety for all men.

I will be contented with no less a compromise.