Seymour would retire from public life rather than abjure his principles.

Grafton had determined to fly to France and to throw himself at the feet of his uncle.

With such rumours as these all the coffeehouses of London were filled during the latter part of February.

So intense was the public anxiety that, if any man of rank was missed, two days running, at his usual haunts, it was immediately whispered that he had stolen away to Saint Germains.

[34] The second of March arrived; and the event quieted the fears of one party, and confounded the hopes of the other.