In truth, I require some armed alliance.

Would you believe it, our friends, so bold in private meetings, yet shrink from a public explosion.

They fear not the patricians, but the soldiery of the patricians; for it is the remarkable feature in the Italian courage, that they have no terror for each other, but the casque and sword of a foreign hireling make them quail like deer." "They will welcome gladly, then, the assurance that such hirelings shall be in their service--not against them; and as much as you desire for the revolution, so many shall you receive." "But the pay and the conditions," said Rienzi, with his dry, sarcastic smile.

"How shall we arrange the first, and what shall we hold to be the second ?" "That is an affair easily concluded," replied Montreal.

"For me, to tell you frankly, the glory and excitement of so great a revulsion would alone suffice.