husband and father.'

'It is the good kings who may be the dangerous ones.'

'O Frank!'

'If a king thinks only of pleasure, then he does not interfere with
matters of state. But if he is conscientious, he tries to do what he
imagines to be his duty, and so he causes trouble. Look at Charles,
for example. He was a very good man, and yet he caused a civil war.
George the Third was a most exemplary character, but his stupidity
lost us America, and nearly lost us Ireland. They were each
succeeded by thoroughly bad men, who did far less harm.'

They had reached the end of Whitehall, and the splendid panorama of
Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament lay before them. The
most stately of ancient English buildings was contrasted with the
most beautiful of modern ones. How anything so graceful came to be
built by this tasteless and utilitarian nation must remain a marvel
to the traveller. The sun was shining upon the gold-work of the
roof, and the grand towers sprang up amid the light London haze, like
some gorgeous palace in a dream. It was a fit centre for the rule to
whose mild sway one-fifth of the human race acquiesces--a rule upheld
by so small a force that only the consent of the governed can sustain
it.

Frank and Maude stood together looking up at it.

'How beautiful it is!' she cried. 'How the gilding lights up the
whole building!'