It is plain that we cannot be agreed; wherefore it plainly behoves us to part.

Let me then go, but let me go in peace.

It may be when I return to these doors you may have learned to think more kindly of me." But the very calmness of these words only stung Nicholas to greater fury.

He had in full force that inherent belief, so deeply rooted in the minds of many of the sons of Rome, that conviction as well as submission could be compelled--could be driven into the minds and consciences of recalcitrant sons and daughters by sheer force and might.

Gnashing his teeth in fury, he sprang once more upon his son, winding his strong arms about him, and fairly lifting him from the ground in his paroxysm of fury.
"Go! ay, we will see about that.