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The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I

CHAPTER V
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A special guard was detached--a little company of soldiers--to stand watch at night.

The bank has twice been moved and is now housed in a building that would stand a siege; but that guard, in the same uniform goes on duty every night.

Nothing is ever abolished, nothing ever changed.

On the anniversary of King Charles's execution, his statue in Trafalgar Square is covered with flowers.
Every month, too, new books appear about the mistresses of old kings--as if they, too, were of more than usual interest: I mean serious, historical books.

From the King's palace to the humblest house I've been in, there are pictures of kings and queens.


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