“But there are those who will judge and despise you for loving the fight, lord,” continued Pryce, impatiently. “They will think you a barbarian, incapable of controlling your base instincts. They do not feel what you feel and cannot appreciate that neither you, nor they, have the power to change their own nature. But they rationalise their own nature, and like to deem it superior to other men and imagine they have tamed something that you cannot.”

