He had lived during many weary months among a people who did not love him, who did not understand him, who could never forget that he was a foreigner.
Those Englishmen who served him most faithfully served him without enthusiasm, without personal attachment, and merely from a sense of public duty.

In their hearts they were sorry that they had no choice but between an English tyrant and a Dutch deliverer.

All was now changed.
William was among a population by which he was adored, as Elizabeth had been adored when she rode through her army at Tilbury, as Charles the Second had been adored when he landed at Dover.

It is true that the old enemies of the House of Orange had not been inactive during the absence of the Stadtholder.

There had been, not indeed clamours, but mutterings against him.