The world's Practical Guidance too is lost, or has glided into the same miscellaneous hands.

Who is it that the King (Able-man, named also Roi, Rex, or Director) now guides?
His own huntsmen and prickers: when there is to be no hunt, it is well said, 'Le Roi ne fera rien (To-day his Majesty will do nothing).

(Memoires sur la Vie privee de Marie Antoinette, par Madame Campan (Paris, 1826), i.

12).

He lives and lingers there, because he is living there, and none has yet laid hands on him.
The nobles, in like manner, have nearly ceased either to guide or misguide; and are now, as their master is, little more than ornamental figures.