A prime minister might be all very well, but he didn't know anything about it.

He knew what it was to be governor, and was very well satisfied to leave things as they were.
This was dampening.

Just as the old fellow thought he had settled the matter, a happy thought struck me: we might make the monarchy an independent arrangement.

Perhaps Goliah would have no objection to that, provided we did not interfere with his governorship.

If Poqua-dilla should be recognized as a queen, and crowned, and provided with an income sufficient to keep her out of any retail business, it was about all she could expect, at her time of life.