This bloodless victory will not last.

God alone knows how the struggle will end.

We know but too well that misery and desolation will be the fate of the country until the matter is finally settled one way or the other; and when will that be ?" Paul listened in grave silence to these words, so foreign to his own hopes and the confident expressions he had heard from time to time uttered by hot partisans of the Red Rose.

He had hoped to find the whole country rejoicing in the restoration of the gentle monarch, whom he loved with the ardour of a generous and impetuous temperament.

But these simple folks, rustic and unlettered though they were, managed somehow to throw a shadow over his spirit by their grave and doubting words.
He realized that King Henry would have a hard struggle ere the whole of England owned his sway.