Although intellectual maturity is reached at an earlier age in the sunny South than in the fog-haunted lands of Northern Europe, Lorenzo had enjoyed a long apprenticeship before being called to undertake the duties devolving on him as the uncrowned king of Florence.

Silent and majestic as an uncrowned prince, seeming neither elated nor depressed by the victory, stood the gunner Hugh St. Mark by the side of the old thirty-two, with which he had fired the shots that saved the fort.

You represent, you see, a great uncrowned royalty, to whom all the world bows.

Feb. 22.] king, and, though uncrowned, had treated on a footing of equality with the proudest of the crowned heads in Europe.

(They termed it an uncrowned, [Footnote: Reading [Greek: haselinon] (Bekker) = "without the parsley crown" (such as was bestowed upon victors in some of the Greek games).]

He was called indeed, at a later time, the "uncrowned ruler".

He was the uncrowned laureate and kings can do no wrong.

"You are an uncrowned Queen," he said, "and you are about to become a powerless Regent.

Heaven grant me patience, for I am indeed an uncrowned Queen, and a childless mother.

The words beginning with un, in the following lines may be classed with participial adjectives: "No king, no subject was; unscutcheoned all; Uncrowned, unplumed, unhelmed, unpedigreed; Unlaced, uncoroneted, unbestarred.

And I am Sardanapalus; A king uncrowned whose sole allegiance Resides in dusky forest regions.

"Monsieur," said the King, and there was a thrill of deep feeling in his voice, "believe me, whatever failings crowned monarchs may have, they at least know how to value such deep devotion as you give your uncrowned ruler.

But how much sadder is the form of the mighty spirit, who once sat regnant among the sons of light, emptied of his innocence, filled with foul, creeping, venomous thoughts and feelings, uncrowned, dethroned only with malignity and throned in evil!

"And," as the Norman knight who had prevailed said to Bertram, "Sir Edgar the Atheling had thus shown himself truly an uncrowned King.

By sheer force of native impudence Nash pushed himself into the position of an uncrowned king, and exercised his social sovereignty with a very high hand.

Now in Florence, now in Rome; living together in Alsace, drifting to Paris; and, when the Revolution drove them from the French capital, seeking refuge in London, where we find the uncrowned Queen of England chatting amicably with the "usurper" George in the Royal box at the operaalways inseparable, and Louise always clinging to the shreds of her Royal dignity, with a throne in her ante-room, and "Your Majesty" on her servants' lips.

The fruit-seller thus found herself virtual Prime Minister, while her daughter reigned, an uncrowned Queen.

" We must hasten over the years that followedyears during which Augustus had no eyes for any other woman than his "uncrowned Queen," and during which she bore him a son who, as Maurice of Saxony, was to win many laurels in the years to come.

CHAPTER XI A SIREN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY When Wilhelmine Encke first opened her eyes on the world one day in the year 1754, he would have been a bold prophet who would have predicted that she would one day be the uncrowned Queen of the Court of Russia, plus Reine que la Reine, and that her children would have in their veins the proudest blood in Europe.

For ten early years it was Louise de la Baume-Leblanc (better known to fame as the Duchesse de Lavallière) who reigned as his uncrowned Queen, and who gave her life to his pleasure and to the care of the children she bore to him.