Henry dominated the imagination of his subjects to an extraordinary degree, no less in his heavy middle-age than in the magnificent strength and capacity of his youth.
But Ralph answered carelessly enough.

He had seen the King too often.
"The King looked pleased enough; he was in his throne.

He is stouter than when I saw him last.

My Lord of Canterbury did the crowning; Te Deum was sung after, and then solemn mass.

There was a dozen abbots, I should think, and my Lords of York and London and Winchester with two or three more.