His soul, without effort or affectation, seemed only to remain in the situation familiar to it, and to look down with contempt on all the efforts of human malice and iniquity.

The soldiers, instigated by their superiors, were brought, though with difficulty, to cry aloud for justice.

"Poor souls!" said the king to one of his attendants, "for a little money they would do as much against their commanders."[*] Some of them were permitted to go the utmost length of brutal insolence, and to spit in his face, as he was conducted along the passage to the court.

To excite a sentiment of pity was the only effect which this inhuman insult was able to produce upon him.
* Rush.

vol.viii.p.