He had (p.

048) yet to learn the secret that painful and laborious mastery of detail is essential to him who aspires not merely to reign but to rule; and matters of detail in administration and diplomacy were still left in his ministers' hands.
[Footnote 85: _L.

and P._, vol.ii., p.

1461.] [Footnote 86: _Sp.

Cal._, ii., 19.] [Footnote 87: _Ibid._, ii., 44, 45.] [Footnote 88: _Ven.