He was fired by the old oratorical fervour, and he spoke as at those meetings when he could scarcely continue his speech for the applause, and the protests and surging of the multitude obstructing the police.
The horror of the priest only seemed to excite him more.
"Philip II.," he continued, "was a foreigner, a German to the very bones.

His grave taciturnity, his slow and penetrating mind, were not Spanish, they were Flemish.

The impassibility with which he received the reverses which ruined the nation was that of a foreigner who was bound by no ties of affection to the country.

'It is better to reign over corpses than over heretics,' he said, and corpses the Spaniards really were, condemned not to think, but to lie in order to conceal their thoughts.

All the ancient offices had disappeared.