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Sons have often made themselves the centre and soul of all the opposition in the realm against their father's government, and have given their fathers a great deal of trouble by so doing; but then, in all such cases, the moment that the father dies the son immediately places himself at the head of the regularly-constituted authorities of the realm, and abandons all his old companions and friends, treating them sometimes with great severity.
No chiming and chattering bells warn them of the day or of the duty no regularly-constituted and well-salaried priest no time-honored fabric, round which the old forefathers of the hamlet rest reminding them regularly of the recurring sabbath, and the sweet assemblage of their fellows.
It was hardly to be believed that they were representatives of any regularly-constituted national Power, for, although the air was full of rumours of war, there was at present unbroken peace all over the world.
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