"Castor and Pollux blow me to Bermuda! How am I to deal with such timidity?" Again, Merlyn stamped his foot, looking thoroughly vexed. "I don't understand how they can consider this anything but extremely ill-advised, and I mean to tell them so! That power, at least, they have not taken from me!" And he glared about with a quite ferocious expression, as if he thoroughly intended to take the Capitol by storm at that very moment.