There may have been others.] Appearances, however, were very deceptive.

The death of Cromwell had, of course, agitated the whole world of exiled Royalism, raising sunk hopes, and stimulating Charles himself, the Queen-Mother, Hyde, Ormond, Colepepper, and the other refugees over the Continent, to doubled activity of intrigue and correspondence.

And, though that immediate excitement had passed, and had even been succeeded by a kind of wondering disappointment among the exiles at the perfect calm attending Richard's accession, it was evident that the chances of Charles were immensely greater under Richard than they had been while Oliver lived.

For one thing, would the relations of Louis XIV.

and Mazarin to Richard's Government remain the same as they had been to Oliver's?
There was no disturbance of these relations as yet.