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days of one another. If lie had had time, and had 

 been in a sufficiently calm frame of mind, he might 

 have reflected on the vicissitudes of Kings in general, 



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and of his own Royal House in ])articular ; but being 

 shockingly upset, and in a mortal terror lest he should 

 lose his head as thoroughly in a physical sense as he had 

 already done in a figurative way of speaking, he lost 

 that opportunity of coolh^ reviewing his position which, 

 lu d it but been seized, would have led him to return to 

 London and stay there. It is not a little sad to reflect 

 that, had the gloomy and morose James not been a 

 coward, the House of Stuart might still have ruled 

 England. At any rate, men did not love the taciturn 

 Prince of Orange and his Dutchmen so well but what 

 they would have gladly done without him and have 

 taken back their King, if that King had only shown a 



