The idea of getting something in return for his coat could hardly have come so quick to him as that impulse in favour of royalty and womanhood.

If one of us to-day should see the queen passing, would he not raise his hat, and assume, unconsciously, something of an altered demeanour because of his reverence for majesty?
In doing so he would have no mean desire of getting anything.

The throne and its occupant are to him honourable, and he honours them.

There is surely no greater mistake than to suppose that reverence is snobbishness.

I meet a great man in the street, and some chance having brought me to his knowledge, he stops and says a word to me.