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and self-importance; these qualities do not imply, 

 indeed they are often inimical to coarse self-indulgence, 

 and the embodiments of these qualities are never the 

 victims of ungovernable passion. Two boys pass by 

 an orchard : one cares for apples, not excessively, but 

 it may be that his desire is stronger than his control 

 over his desire ; the other boy has quite a passion for 

 apples, but he may also have an inherent and passion- 

 ate sense of self-control. Which is the more likely to 

 rob the orchard, to eat half an apple, throw the other 

 half away and rob another orchard the next day ? 



Mary and Elizabeth were strongly marked examples 

 both in mental and in bodily features of the two funda- 

 mental and opposite types of character. Elizabeth 

 was almost an exact copy of her father. Both had, in 



/ an unusual degree, capacity, courage, the sense of 

 public duty, and the desire for the welfare of their 

 subjects ; both were changeable, uncertain, domineer- 

 ing, vain j in both, love of movement, pageantry and 

 personal predominance was excessive. Elizabeth was 



- less pious than her father less in inner feeling and 

 outer ceremonial she, unlike her father, had not been 

 trained to be an archbishop, but she had much more 

 sagacity and tact than he. She had, perhaps, not all 

 his self-importance, certainly not his self-confidence 

 and therefore she was even more fitful. She was a 



/busy, bustling woman, and these, like busy, bustling 



/ men, are never deeply emotional. She most certainly 

 had neither the maternal nor the wifely instincts. She 

 was always doing something, but she, curiously, hated 

 doing things that could not be undone. Naturally, 

 too, a queen might not change husbands so easily as a 

 king might his wives. She would probably have 

 lopped off a goodly number of heads, if only heads 



