[408] But this tameness was merely the tameness with which a tiger, caught, caged and starved, submits to the keeper who brings him food.

The humble menial was at heart the haughtiest, the most aspiring, the most vindictive, the most despotic of men.

And now at length a great, a boundless prospect was opening before him.

To William he was already slightly known.

At Moor Park the King had sometimes, when his host was confined by gout to an easy chair, been attended by the secretary about the grounds.