For the evils which it has caused are felt; and the evils which it has removed are felt no longer.
Thus it was now in England.

The public was, as it always is during the cold fits which follow its hot fits, sullen, hard to please, dissatisfied with itself, dissatisfied with those who had lately been its favourites.

The truce between the two great parties was at an end.
Separated by the memory of all that had been done and suffered during a conflict of half a century, they had been, during a few months, united by a common danger.

But the danger was over: the union was dissolved; and the old animosity broke forth again in all its strength.
James had during the last year of his reign, been even more hated by the Tories than by the Whigs; and not without cause for the Whigs he was only an enemy; and to the Tories he had been a faithless and thankless friend.

But the old royalist feeling, which had seemed to be extinct in the time of his lawless domination, had been partially revived by his misfortunes.