If he had remained, wrath at the national downfall, his relations with his co-laborers, the air in which he lived--everything would surely have dragged him along to revolt.

In that case, he would have been shot or consigned to a colonial prison like so many of his former comrades.
So his determination crystallized, and he stopped thinking about the affairs of his mother-country.

The necessities of existence in a foreign land whose language he was beginning to pick up made him think only of himself.

The turbulent and adventurous life of these new nations compelled him to most absurd expedients and varied occupations.

Yet he felt himself strong with an audacity and self-reliance which he never had in the old world.