breathing that sea breeze , so much more invigorating and balsamic as the land is approached , contemplating all the power of those preparations he was commissioned to destroy , all the power of that army which he was to combat alone -- she , a man with a few bags of gold -- milord compared himself mentally to judith , the terrible jewess , when he penetrated the camp of the assyrians and beheld the enormous mass of chariots , horses , women , and arms , which a gesture of his hand was to dissipate like a cloud of smoke .