Whenever a child was born to any of these -- and it was pretty often--there was wild joy in the nation's mouth, and piteous sorrow in the nation's heart.

The joy was questionable, but the grief was honest.

Because the event meant another call for a Royal Grant.

Long was the list of these royalties, and they were a heavy and steadily increasing burden upon the treasury and a menace to the crown.

Yet Arthur could not believe this latter fact, and he would not listen to any of my various projects for substituting something in the place of the royal grants.