From this circumstance we may judge how keenly he must have felt the outrage while it was still recent.

[592] Yet, had he possessed an ordinary measure of good sense, he would have seen that those who had detained him had unintentionally done him a great service.

The events which had taken place during his absence from his capital ought to have convinced him that, if he had succeeded in escaping, he never would have returned.

In his own despite he had been saved from ruin.

He had another chance, a last chance.