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of my Prime Minister. And the chief duty required 

 of me now is to assent to her enactments, and 

 to attach my name to certain documents. But 

 I must say that since she has held the offices of 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home and Foreign 

 Minister, there has been an improvement in the 

 State affairs. All has been well in my dominion 

 and prospered under her rule. She is very popular, 

 too, and has won the hearts of my subjects, over 

 whom she possesses unlimited sway. Sometimes I 

 venture to give orders as of yore, when I was an 

 absolute monarch. But my commands are treated 

 as unconstitutional. If I tell my old and loyal 

 subject William to do such and such a thing, he 

 reverently and politely suggests that perhaps missis 

 will not like it. If I ask my cook to sometimes give 

 me certain savoury dishes that I favoured of old, she 

 replies, "You had better speak to missis, and she will 

 no doubt allow you to have them." When I order 

 a recently purchased horse to be saddled for me, 

 my groom says, " Missis has given particular orders 

 that he is never to be brought out again for 

 your riding, sir, as he is unsafe." Still, I must not 

 murmur. All is done for my sake, and to secure my 

 welfare and happiness. 



My wife is very fond of gardening, and I have 

 committed to her charge the laying out of flower 

 beds, and requested her to make any alteration in 



