Too many kings and emperors flourished yet in the world which God had meant for the people.
He was sad because of his simplicity.

Though always ready to help his countrymen, and greatly respected by the Italian emigrants wherever he lived (in his exile he called it), he could not conceal from himself that they cared nothing for the wrongs of down-trodden nations.

They listened to his tales of war readily, but seemed to ask themselves what he had got out of it after all.

There was nothing that they could see.
"We wanted nothing, we suffered for the love of all humanity!" he cried out furiously sometimes, and the powerful voice, the blazing eyes, the shaking of the white mane, the brown, sinewy hand pointing upwards as if to call heaven to witness, impressed his hearers.

After the old man had broken off abruptly with a jerk of the head and a movement of the arm, meaning clearly, "But what's the good of talking to you ?" they nudged each other.