Instead of a Cassius, enviously scowling at the greatness of his former comrade, Caesar, we have one whose generous admiration for the alien set over him struggles hard, and not unsuccessfully, with natural resentment.

In keeping with such company is the noble Pisan general, who vies with Luria in generosity and twice intervenes decisively to save him from the Florentine attack.

Even Domizia, the "panther" lady who comes to the camp burning for vengeance upon Florence for the death of her kinsmen, and hoping to attain it by embroiling him with the city, finally emerges as his lover.

But in Domizia he confessedly failed.

The correspondence with Miss Barrett stole the vitality from all mere imaginary women; "the panther would not be tamed." Her hatred and her love alike merely beat the air.