Their first movements at The Hague were totally unsupported by foreign aid.

Irene seems to have held out longer, and, doubtless, scornful of her more frivolous comrade's defection, steadfastly kept the faith awhile unsupported, walking the world in bloomered lonelinesstill a like event overtook her.

She had laid aside her oracular claims, her comparatively unsupported assertions of her own divinity; had flung off her robes of state and authority and was competing here on equal terms with the masters of natural lawmore, she was accepted by them as their mistress.

But the people may be for a time wrongas, for instance, in the persecution of the "witches"and senators, who by their mode of election and length of term are made somewhat independent, can comparatively without fear do what seems right, even if temporarily unsupported by public opinion.

Denmark was a small nation, and moreover was left utterly unsupported by the European powers who had guaranteed her integrity.