The animosity towards the King was extreme.

I saw people who happened to be sitting in front of the cafs rise and turn their backs to him when he walked past, as he used to do without any attendant.

Comoundouros ran with the diplomats and hunted with the populace,--I think he really meant to continue running and avoid hunting at any risk, but he talked on the other side.

I knew him well, and used continually to go to his house when he received all the world in the evening, in perfectly republican simplicity, as is the way in Athens, and he said to me one evening that the King prevented action, and impeded all steps to render the army efficient.
This was evidently the feeling of the populace, and public demonstrations took place which menaced revolution, and on one occasion shots were fired, and the demonstrators were dispersed by the cavalry.

I asked him on that occasion why the ministry did not let the revolution loose, and drive the King away.