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For instance, cuously omitted to say.

As it was with his royalty, so it was with, his nationality. He was driven from his country as a lad. Exile, continued until manhood, inevitably made him a commupol. itan.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the there in & representation of the banner of ang out his heart, and subtly perverting}

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the Cover anters, with the inscription on it of "No quarter." But that is not what I want to talk about.

Than. he had no legitimate offspring. I am certain that this misfortune was always, His nature. Pad he had a son by his mar. ringe, ho would have been a good father- tonderbess on the children of his loome perhaps a good husband too. He lavished amours, but they could, never be to him what a child would have been that could have borne his name and continued his

Among the reproductions in this book I have found a quite extraordinarily reod portrait of Claries II. It is from a minia-line.

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Those are the clerents of the tragedy of Charles II. It is not always the sovereigns wh end their lives on the scaffold whose fse is the most tragic. When all is said. It is curious how little things about man which the historiars tend to leave out I fancy that Mary Stuart suffered less NITRAORDINARY GENERAL

dasth. And, when I remember all that MEETING of the Royal Hongkong Golf personal, cedental, and unimportant torments than the Queen who put her to Club will be held at the Cara love, on change the whole picture when once you this man did and all that he did not do, chosen to have been; I am not at all sure WEDNESDAY, the 7th day of May, 1913, get your imagination to grip them and all that he was, and all that he would have as 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon, when the work on them. For instance, I am sure that the second Charlo Stuart was a more-Fire Extraordinary Resolutions which passed at the Extraordinary General Mert that those who have got a vague idea of fortunate man than the fret-though he

i ing held on the 16th day of April, 1913. Charles II. frous the experficial traditions anduredly an abler and probably a For there were elements of greatness, will be submitted for confirmation as started by his later detractors would Special Relations,

osturally think of him antering not only intellectual, but moral, in Charles was courage. There was charity, and t gracefully through life, and would picture. There was magnanimity in him, there his movements as languornis and event not a little humility. Many kinge Bereans Marine Department. lounging In fact, he walked at such and many subjects have left a very Other Receipts breakneck pace that his courtiers panted

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Note again Lis favourite recreations how he loved anything that involved work ing with his bands. Carpentry tascinated

he

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The Accumulative Funds of the various would conceive him as uttering his polished

And then, Iluk ag in at the marvellous Branches are separately invested, and, by epigrams in sppropriately daleet accents they would not associate his personality portrait of which I spoke at the beginning. Act of Parliament, are set aside to meet with a loud voice and a great roaring lan hand the curtemplation of which started ase the claime under the respective Depart

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Nove with what cruelty fate cut every one ut the time that might have bound hiar to sume purpose or some iden..

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His father had Leon king with the great traditions of English kingship, He lost, that kiugship when the younger Charles was a mere bay, and it never re

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