333/349 These vague phrases were not likely to quiet the perturbed mind of the minister. His agitation became violent, and he began to plead for his place as if he had been pleading for his life. "Your Majesty sees that I do all in my power to obey you. I will serve you in your own way. Nay," he cried, in an agony of baseness, "I will do what I can to believe as you would have me. |