"I fear the people for their own sake; I fear the ruin and destruction they may, by ill-advised action, bring upon themselves and their country.
Mr.Maraton, grant, will you not, that I am a man of some experience?
Believe, I pray you, that I am honest.

Let me assure you of this.

If the people be not wisely led now, the Empire which I and my Ministers have striven so hard to keep intact, must fall.

There are troubles pressing upon us still from every side.

If the people are wrongly advised to-day, the British Empire must fall, even as those other great dynasties of the past have fallen." Maraton turned once more to the window, raised the curtain, and gazed out into the darkness.