After all, why need one look down. His subjects,
however, were no longer entirely under his control; and, though he managed to
enforce some little attention to his commands, it was evident his authority was
waning fast. The peculiar appearance of the sky was
not without some influence in awakening these terrors. His apparel was sumptuous in the extreme, and such as was only
worn by persons of the highest distinction. Buried under various ancestral sixteenths, smothered under
modern thought, liberty of action and bewildering variety of flesh-pots, it was
still alive to the extent that it needed only his present state to resuscitate it in all
its peculiar force. But the
lady was not so easily won; and though she did not absolutely reject him, gave
him very slight hopes. I shall
start at the bottom.
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