There were not many who came from that quarter.
The East End, as a whole, remained in the East
End and got drunk. The Socialists, Democrats,
and Republicans went off to the country for a
breath of fresh air, quite unaffected by the fact that
forty millions of people were taking to themselves a

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crowned and anointed ruler. Six thousand five
hundred prelates, priests, statesmen, princes, and
warriors beheld the crowning and anointing and
the rest of us the pageant as it passed.

I saw it at Trafalgar Square, the most splendid
site in Europe, and the very uttermost heart of the

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