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But the more convinced Geoffrey became of this , the more his mind turned to the other persons of those eventful days . The King had not come -- that was the grim fact -- the King had not come to claim his own ; had left his honest gentlemen to fight or fall without him ; and no one , even now , could tell how different the event might have been that day had George the Fifth but proved his own cause worth defending . Geoffrey , Dacre , none of them had had news of the King since the day of Aldershot . Up to the very stroke of noon , as Geoffrey remembered , Dacre had expected him . But they had waited in vain . And now the White Horse of Hanover , and with that the Norman Leopard , was a thing of the past . From his window Geoffrey could see the red , white , and green tricolor in the Tower yard .