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CHAPTER V.
"You spoke of innovations, and I also believe it is ill to try experiments in states, unless the need be urgent,"
The Buccaneer.
Evelyn and young Goring rode side by side where the road permitted, and, when too narrow, one or other galloped gaily forward. Both were in high spirits, and confident of success.
"Such a scene," said Evelyn, "As I have left behind me in London! Richard impatient to enact
'Retired leisure,
Which in trim gardens takes its pleasure.'
—asking everybody's advice, and, out of anxiety to benefit by all, profiting by none,—ready to proclaim Charles Stuart in the morning, but resolved on keeping his Protectorship to the last at night,—now going to disband the army, and now to dissolve the Parliament, and yet unable to make up his mind to either."
