Chapter 23 XXIII THE FLIGHT

Now bid me run,

And I will strive with things impossible;

Yea, get the better of them.

Set on your foot;

And, with a heart new fired, I follow you,

To do I know not what.

JULIUS CAESAR

In spite of a mixture of joy and fear, doubt, anxiety, and other agitating passions, the exhausting fatigues of the preceding day were powerful