[3] The English Lords congratulated their master on his immense popularity.

"Yes," said he; "but I am not the favourite.

The shouting was nothing to what it would have been if Mary had been with me." A few hours after the triumphal entry, the King attended a sitting of the States General.

His last appearance among them had been on the day on which he embarked for England.

He had then, amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave Senators, thanked them for the kindness with which they had watched over his childhood, trained his young mind, and supported his authority in his riper years; and he had solemnly commended his beloved wife to their care.