You are to attach yourself to His Majesty, I understand ?" "But I am to have no place or office, sir," I said.

"I am rather to be at His Majesty's disposal--to fetch and carry, I may say, if he should need my services." His Highness looked at me sidelong and swiftly; and I understood that he did not wish any originality even in speech.
"We must all be discreet, however," he said--( though I suppose there was never any man less discreet than himself, especially when he most needed to be so).

"It is useless to say that we are altogether loved; for we are not.

But you will soon acquaint yourself with all our politics." I did not say that I had already done so; but assured him that I would do my best.
"As a general guide, I may say," he went on; "where there is Whiggery, there is disloyalty, however much the Whigs may protest.

They say they desire a king as much as any; but it is not a king that they want, but his shadow only." He talked on in this manner for a little, for we had the Gallery to ourselves, telling me, what I knew very well already, that the Catholics and the High Churchmen were, as a whole, staunch Royalists; but that the rest, especially those of the old Covenanting blood, still were capable of mischief.