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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Prince and The Pauper, Part 8.
+by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
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+Title: The Prince and The Pauper, Part 8.
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+Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
+
+Release Date: July 4, 2004 [EBook #7161]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, PART 8. ***
+
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+Produced by David Widger
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+                     THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
+
+                          by Mark Twain
+
+                             Part 8.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter XXVII. In prison.
+
+The cells were all crowded; so the two friends were chained in a large
+room where persons charged with trifling offences were commonly kept.
+They had company, for there were some twenty manacled and fettered
+prisoners here, of both sexes and of varying ages,--an obscene and noisy
+gang.  The King chafed bitterly over the stupendous indignity thus put
+upon his royalty, but Hendon was moody and taciturn.  He was pretty
+thoroughly bewildered; he had come home, a jubilant prodigal, expecting
+to find everybody wild with joy over his return; and instead had got the
+cold shoulder and a jail.  The promise and the fulfilment differed so
+widely that the effect was stunning; he could not decide whether it was
+most tragic or most grotesque.  He felt much as a man might who had
+danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.
+
+But gradually his confused and tormenting thoughts settled down into some
+sort of order, and then his mind centred itself upon Edith.  He turned
+her conduct over, and examined it in all lights, but he could not make
+anything satisfactory out of it.  Did she know him--or didn't she know
+him?  It was a perplexing puzzle, and occupied him a long time; but he
+ended, finally, with the conviction that she did know him, and had
+repudiated him for interested reasons.  He wanted to load her name with
+curses now; but this name had so long been sacred to him that he found he
+could not bring his tongue to profane it.
+
+Wrapped in prison blankets of a soiled and tattered condition, Hendon and
+the King passed a troubled night.  For a bribe the jailer had furnished
+liquor to some of the prisoners; singing of ribald songs, fighting,
+shouting, and carousing was the natural consequence.  At last, a while
+after midnight, a man attacked a woman and nearly killed her by beating
+her over the head with his manacles before the jailer could come to the
+rescue.  The jailer restored peace by giving the man a sound clubbing
+about the head and shoulders--then the carousing ceased; and after that,
+all had an opportunity to sleep who did not mind the annoyance of the
+moanings and groanings of the two wounded people.
+
+During the ensuing week, the days and nights were of a monotonous
+sameness as to events; men whose faces Hendon remembered more or less
+distinctly, came, by day, to gaze at the 'impostor' and repudiate and
+insult him; and by night the carousing and brawling went on with
+symmetrical regularity.  However, there was a change of incident at last.
+The jailer brought in an old man, and said to him--
+
+"The villain is in this room--cast thy old eyes about and see if thou
+canst say which is he."
+
+Hendon glanced up, and experienced a pleasant sensation for the first
+time since he had been in the jail.  He said to himself, "This is Blake
+Andrews, a servant all his life in my father's family--a good honest
+soul, with a right heart in his breast. That is, formerly.  But none are
+true now; all are liars.  This man will know me--and will deny me, too,
+like the rest."
+
+The old man gazed around the room, glanced at each face in turn, and
+finally said--
+
+"I see none here but paltry knaves, scum o' the streets.  Which is he?"
+
+The jailer laughed.
+
+"Here," he said; "scan this big animal, and grant me an opinion."
+
+The old man approached, and looked Hendon over, long and earnestly, then
+shook his head and said--
+
+"Marry, THIS is no Hendon--nor ever was!"
+
+"Right!  Thy old eyes are sound yet.  An' I were Sir Hugh, I would take
+the shabby carle and--"
+
+The jailer finished by lifting himself a-tip-toe with an imaginary
+halter, at the same time making a gurgling noise in his throat suggestive
+of suffocation.  The old man said, vindictively--
+
+"Let him bless God an' he fare no worse.  An' _I_ had the handling o' the
+villain he should roast, or I am no true man!"
+
+The jailer laughed a pleasant hyena laugh, and said--
+
+"Give him a piece of thy mind, old man--they all do it.  Thou'lt find it
+good diversion."
+
+Then he sauntered toward his ante-room and disappeared.  The old man
+dropped upon his knees and whispered--
+
+"God be thanked, thou'rt come again, my master!  I believed thou wert
+dead these seven years, and lo, here thou art alive!  I knew thee the
+moment I saw thee; and main hard work it was to keep a stony countenance
+and seem to see none here but tuppenny knaves and rubbish o' the streets.
+I am old and poor, Sir Miles; but say the word and I will go forth and
+proclaim the truth though I be strangled for it."
+
+"No," said Hendon; "thou shalt not.  It would ruin thee, and yet help but
+little in my cause.  But I thank thee, for thou hast given me back
+somewhat of my lost faith in my kind."
+
+The old servant became very valuable to Hendon and the King; for he
+dropped in several times a day to 'abuse' the former, and always smuggled
+in a few delicacies to help out the prison bill of fare; he also
+furnished the current news.  Hendon reserved the dainties for the King;
+without them his Majesty might not have survived, for he was not able to
+eat the coarse and wretched food provided by the jailer.  Andrews was
+obliged to confine himself to brief visits, in order to avoid suspicion;
+but he managed to impart a fair degree of information each time
+--information delivered in a low voice, for Hendon's benefit, and
+interlarded with insulting epithets delivered in a louder voice for the
+benefit of other hearers.
+
+So, little by little, the story of the family came out.  Arthur had been
+dead six years.  This loss, with the absence of news from Hendon,
+impaired the father's health; he believed he was going to die, and he
+wished to see Hugh and Edith settled in life before he passed away; but
+Edith begged hard for delay, hoping for Miles's return; then the letter
+came which brought the news of Miles's death; the shock prostrated Sir
+Richard; he believed his end was very near, and he and Hugh insisted upon
+the marriage; Edith begged for and obtained a month's respite, then
+another, and finally a third; the marriage then took place by the
+death-bed of Sir Richard.  It had not proved a happy one.  It was
+whispered about the country that shortly after the nuptials the bride
+found among her husband's papers several rough and incomplete drafts of
+the fatal letter, and had accused him of precipitating the marriage--and
+Sir Richard's death, too--by a wicked forgery. Tales of cruelty to the
+Lady Edith and the servants were to be heard on all hands; and since the
+father's death Sir Hugh had thrown off all soft disguises and become a
+pitiless master toward all who in any way depended upon him and his
+domains for bread.
+
+There was a bit of Andrew's gossip which the King listened to with a
+lively interest--
+
+"There is rumour that the King is mad.  But in charity forbear to say _I_
+mentioned it, for 'tis death to speak of it, they say."
+
+His Majesty glared at the old man and said--
+
+"The King is NOT mad, good man--and thou'lt find it to thy advantage to
+busy thyself with matters that nearer concern thee than this seditious
+prattle."
+
+"What doth the lad mean?" said Andrews, surprised at this brisk assault
+from such an unexpected quarter.  Hendon gave him a sign, and he did not
+pursue his question, but went on with his budget--
+
+"The late King is to be buried at Windsor in a day or two--the 16th of
+the month--and the new King will be crowned at Westminster the 20th."
+
+"Methinks they must needs find him first," muttered his Majesty; then
+added, confidently, "but they will look to that--and so also shall I."
+
+"In the name of--"
+
+But the old man got no further--a warning sign from Hendon checked his
+remark.  He resumed the thread of his gossip--
+
+"Sir Hugh goeth to the coronation--and with grand hopes.  He confidently
+looketh to come back a peer, for he is high in favour with the Lord
+Protector."
+
+"What Lord Protector?" asked his Majesty.
+
+"His Grace the Duke of Somerset."
+
+"What Duke of Somerset?"
+
+"Marry, there is but one--Seymour, Earl of Hertford."
+
+The King asked sharply--
+
+"Since when is HE a duke, and Lord Protector?"
+
+"Since the last day of January."
+
+"And prithee who made him so?"
+
+"Himself and the Great Council--with help of the King."
+
+His Majesty started violently.  "The KING!" he cried.  "WHAT king, good
+sir?"
+
+"What king, indeed! (God-a-mercy, what aileth the boy?)  Sith we have but
+one, 'tis not difficult to answer--his most sacred Majesty King Edward
+the Sixth--whom God preserve!  Yea, and a dear and gracious little urchin
+is he, too; and whether he be mad or no--and they say he mendeth daily
+--his praises are on all men's lips; and all bless him, likewise, and offer
+prayers that he may be spared to reign long in England; for he began
+humanely with saving the old Duke of Norfolk's life, and now is he bent
+on destroying the cruellest of the laws that harry and oppress the
+people."
+
+This news struck his Majesty dumb with amazement, and plunged him into so
+deep and dismal a reverie that he heard no more of the old man's gossip.
+He wondered if the 'little urchin' was the beggar-boy whom he left
+dressed in his own garments in the palace.  It did not seem possible that
+this could be, for surely his manners and speech would betray him if he
+pretended to be the Prince of Wales--then he would be driven out, and
+search made for the true prince.  Could it be that the Court had set up
+some sprig of the nobility in his place?  No, for his uncle would not
+allow that--he was all-powerful and could and would crush such a
+movement, of course.  The boy's musings profited him nothing; the more he
+tried to unriddle the mystery the more perplexed he became, the more his
+head ached, and the worse he slept.  His impatience to get to London grew
+hourly, and his captivity became almost unendurable.
+
+Hendon's arts all failed with the King--he could not be comforted; but a
+couple of women who were chained near him succeeded better. Under their
+gentle ministrations he found peace and learned a degree of patience.  He
+was very grateful, and came to love them dearly and to delight in the
+sweet and soothing influence of their presence.  He asked them why they
+were in prison, and when they said they were Baptists, he smiled, and
+inquired--
+
+"Is that a crime to be shut up for in a prison?  Now I grieve, for I
+shall lose ye--they will not keep ye long for such a little thing."
+
+They did not answer; and something in their faces made him uneasy. He
+said, eagerly--
+
+"You do not speak; be good to me, and tell me--there will be no other
+punishment?  Prithee tell me there is no fear of that."
+
+They tried to change the topic, but his fears were aroused, and he
+pursued it--
+
+"Will they scourge thee?  No, no, they would not be so cruel!  Say they
+would not.  Come, they WILL not, will they?"
+
+The women betrayed confusion and distress, but there was no avoiding an
+answer, so one of them said, in a voice choked with emotion--
+
+"Oh, thou'lt break our hearts, thou gentle spirit!--God will help us to
+bear our--"
+
+"It is a confession!" the King broke in.  "Then they WILL scourge thee,
+the stony-hearted wretches!  But oh, thou must not weep, I cannot bear
+it.  Keep up thy courage--I shall come to my own in time to save thee
+from this bitter thing, and I will do it!"
+
+When the King awoke in the morning, the women were gone.
+
+"They are saved!" he said, joyfully; then added, despondently, "but woe
+is me!--for they were my comforters."
+
+Each of them had left a shred of ribbon pinned to his clothing, in token
+of remembrance.  He said he would keep these things always; and that soon
+he would seek out these dear good friends of his and take them under his
+protection.
+
+Just then the jailer came in with some subordinates, and commanded that
+the prisoners be conducted to the jail-yard.  The King was overjoyed--it
+would be a blessed thing to see the blue sky and breathe the fresh air
+once more.  He fretted and chafed at the slowness of the officers, but
+his turn came at last, and he was released from his staple and ordered to
+follow the other prisoners with Hendon.
+
+The court or quadrangle was stone-paved, and open to the sky.  The
+prisoners entered it through a massive archway of masonry, and were
+placed in file, standing, with their backs against the wall. A rope was
+stretched in front of them, and they were also guarded by their officers.
+It was a chill and lowering morning, and a light snow which had fallen
+during the night whitened the great empty space and added to the general
+dismalness of its aspect. Now and then a wintry wind shivered through the
+place and sent the snow eddying hither and thither.
+
+In the centre of the court stood two women, chained to posts.  A glance
+showed the King that these were his good friends.  He shuddered, and said
+to himself, "Alack, they are not gone free, as I had thought.  To think
+that such as these should know the lash!--in England!  Ay, there's the
+shame of it--not in Heathennesse, Christian England!  They will be
+scourged; and I, whom they have comforted and kindly entreated, must look
+on and see the great wrong done; it is strange, so strange, that I, the
+very source of power in this broad realm, am helpless to protect them.
+But let these miscreants look well to themselves, for there is a day
+coming when I will require of them a heavy reckoning for this work.  For
+every blow they strike now, they shall feel a hundred then."
+
+A great gate swung open, and a crowd of citizens poured in.  They flocked
+around the two women, and hid them from the King's view. A clergyman
+entered and passed through the crowd, and he also was hidden.  The King
+now heard talking, back and forth, as if questions were being asked and
+answered, but he could not make out what was said.  Next there was a deal
+of bustle and preparation, and much passing and repassing of officials
+through that part of the crowd that stood on the further side of the
+women; and whilst this proceeded a deep hush gradually fell upon the
+people.
+
+Now, by command, the masses parted and fell aside, and the King saw a
+spectacle that froze the marrow in his bones.  Faggots had been piled
+about the two women, and a kneeling man was lighting them!
+
+The women bowed their heads, and covered their faces with their hands;
+the yellow flames began to climb upward among the snapping and crackling
+faggots, and wreaths of blue smoke to stream away on the wind; the
+clergyman lifted his hands and began a prayer--just then two young girls
+came flying through the great gate, uttering piercing screams, and threw
+themselves upon the women at the stake.  Instantly they were torn away by
+the officers, and one of them was kept in a tight grip, but the other
+broke loose, saying she would die with her mother; and before she could
+be stopped she had flung her arms about her mother's neck again.  She was
+torn away once more, and with her gown on fire.  Two or three men held
+her, and the burning portion of her gown was snatched off and thrown
+flaming aside, she struggling all the while to free herself, and saying
+she would be alone in the world, now; and begging to be allowed to die
+with her mother.  Both the girls screamed continually, and fought for
+freedom; but suddenly this tumult was drowned under a volley of
+heart-piercing shrieks of mortal agony--the King glanced from the frantic
+girls to the stake, then turned away and leaned his ashen face against
+the wall, and looked no more.  He said, "That which I have seen, in that
+one little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide
+there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights,
+till I die.  Would God I had been blind!"
+
+Hendon was watching the King.  He said to himself, with satisfaction,
+"His disorder mendeth; he hath changed, and groweth gentler.  If he had
+followed his wont, he would have stormed at these varlets, and said he
+was King, and commanded that the women be turned loose unscathed.  Soon
+his delusion will pass away and be forgotten, and his poor mind will be
+whole again.  God speed the day!"
+
+That same day several prisoners were brought in to remain over night, who
+were being conveyed, under guard, to various places in the kingdom, to
+undergo punishment for crimes committed.  The King conversed with these
+--he had made it a point, from the beginning, to instruct himself for the
+kingly office by questioning prisoners whenever the opportunity offered
+--and the tale of their woes wrung his heart.  One of them was a poor
+half-witted woman who had stolen a yard or two of cloth from a weaver
+--she was to be hanged for it.  Another was a man who had been accused of
+stealing a horse; he said the proof had failed, and he had imagined that
+he was safe from the halter; but no--he was hardly free before he was
+arraigned for killing a deer in the King's park; this was proved against
+him, and now he was on his way to the gallows.  There was a tradesman's
+apprentice whose case particularly distressed the King; this youth said
+he found a hawk, one evening, that had escaped from its owner, and he
+took it home with him, imagining himself entitled to it; but the court
+convicted him of stealing it, and sentenced him to death.
+
+The King was furious over these inhumanities, and wanted Hendon to break
+jail and fly with him to Westminster, so that he could mount his throne
+and hold out his sceptre in mercy over these unfortunate people and save
+their lives.  "Poor child," sighed Hendon, "these woeful tales have
+brought his malady upon him again; alack, but for this evil hap, he would
+have been well in a little time."
+
+Among these prisoners was an old lawyer--a man with a strong face and a
+dauntless mien.  Three years past, he had written a pamphlet against the
+Lord Chancellor, accusing him of injustice, and had been punished for it
+by the loss of his ears in the pillory, and degradation from the bar, and
+in addition had been fined 3,000 pounds and sentenced to imprisonment for
+life.  Lately he had repeated his offence; and in consequence was now
+under sentence to lose WHAT REMAINED OF HIS EARS, pay a fine of 5,000
+pounds, be branded on both cheeks, and remain in prison for life.
+
+"These be honourable scars," he said, and turned back his grey hair and
+showed the mutilated stubs of what had once been his ears.
+
+The King's eye burned with passion.  He said--
+
+"None believe in me--neither wilt thou.  But no matter--within the
+compass of a month thou shalt be free; and more, the laws that have
+dishonoured thee, and shamed the English name, shall be swept from the
+statute books.  The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to
+their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy." {1}
+
+
+
+Chapter XXVIII. The sacrifice.
+
+Meantime Miles was growing sufficiently tired of confinement and
+inaction.  But now his trial came on, to his great gratification, and he
+thought he could welcome any sentence provided a further imprisonment
+should not be a part of it.  But he was mistaken about that.  He was in a
+fine fury when he found himself described as a 'sturdy vagabond' and
+sentenced to sit two hours in the stocks for bearing that character and
+for assaulting the master of Hendon Hall.  His pretensions as to
+brothership with his prosecutor, and rightful heirship to the Hendon
+honours and estates, were left contemptuously unnoticed, as being not
+even worth examination.
+
+He raged and threatened on his way to punishment, but it did no good; he
+was snatched roughly along by the officers, and got an occasional cuff,
+besides, for his irreverent conduct.
+
+The King could not pierce through the rabble that swarmed behind; so he
+was obliged to follow in the rear, remote from his good friend and
+servant.  The King had been nearly condemned to the stocks himself for
+being in such bad company, but had been let off with a lecture and a
+warning, in consideration of his youth.  When the crowd at last halted,
+he flitted feverishly from point to point around its outer rim, hunting a
+place to get through; and at last, after a deal of difficulty and delay,
+succeeded.  There sat his poor henchman in the degrading stocks, the
+sport and butt of a dirty mob--he, the body servant of the King of
+England!  Edward had heard the sentence pronounced, but he had not
+realised the half that it meant.  His anger began to rise as the sense of
+this new indignity which had been put upon him sank home; it jumped to
+summer heat, the next moment, when he saw an egg sail through the air and
+crush itself against Hendon's cheek, and heard the crowd roar its
+enjoyment of the episode.  He sprang across the open circle and
+confronted the officer in charge, crying--
+
+"For shame!  This is my servant--set him free!  I am the--"
+
+"Oh, peace!" exclaimed Hendon, in a panic, "thou'lt destroy thyself.
+Mind him not, officer, he is mad."
+
+"Give thyself no trouble as to the matter of minding him, good man, I
+have small mind to mind him; but as to teaching him somewhat, to that I
+am well inclined."  He turned to a subordinate and said, "Give the little
+fool a taste or two of the lash, to mend his manners."
+
+"Half a dozen will better serve his turn," suggested Sir Hugh, who had
+ridden up, a moment before, to take a passing glance at the proceedings.
+
+The King was seized.  He did not even struggle, so paralysed was he with
+the mere thought of the monstrous outrage that was proposed to be
+inflicted upon his sacred person.  History was already defiled with the
+record of the scourging of an English king with whips--it was an
+intolerable reflection that he must furnish a duplicate of that shameful
+page.  He was in the toils, there was no help for him; he must either
+take this punishment or beg for its remission.  Hard conditions; he would
+take the stripes--a king might do that, but a king could not beg.
+
+But meantime, Miles Hendon was resolving the difficulty.  "Let the child
+go," said he; "ye heartless dogs, do ye not see how young and frail he
+is?  Let him go--I will take his lashes."
+
+"Marry, a good thought--and thanks for it," said Sir Hugh, his face
+lighting with a sardonic satisfaction.  "Let the little beggar go, and
+give this fellow a dozen in his place--an honest dozen, well laid on."
+The King was in the act of entering a fierce protest, but Sir Hugh
+silenced him with the potent remark, "Yes, speak up, do, and free thy
+mind--only, mark ye, that for each word you utter he shall get six
+strokes the more."
+
+Hendon was removed from the stocks, and his back laid bare; and whilst
+the lash was applied the poor little King turned away his face and
+allowed unroyal tears to channel his cheeks unchecked. "Ah, brave good
+heart," he said to himself, "this loyal deed shall never perish out of my
+memory.  I will not forget it--and neither shall THEY!" he added, with
+passion.  Whilst he mused, his appreciation of Hendon's magnanimous
+conduct grew to greater and still greater dimensions in his mind, and so
+also did his gratefulness for it.  Presently he said to himself, "Who
+saves his prince from wounds and possible death--and this he did for me
+--performs high service; but it is little--it is nothing--oh, less than
+nothing!--when 'tis weighed against the act of him who saves his prince
+from SHAME!"
+
+Hendon made no outcry under the scourge, but bore the heavy blows with
+soldierly fortitude.  This, together with his redeeming the boy by taking
+his stripes for him, compelled the respect of even that forlorn and
+degraded mob that was gathered there; and its gibes and hootings died
+away, and no sound remained but the sound of the falling blows.  The
+stillness that pervaded the place, when Hendon found himself once more in
+the stocks, was in strong contrast with the insulting clamour which had
+prevailed there so little a while before.  The King came softly to
+Hendon's side, and whispered in his ear--
+
+"Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher
+than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility
+to men."  He picked up the scourge from the ground, touched Hendon's
+bleeding shoulders lightly with it, and whispered, "Edward of England
+dubs thee Earl!"
+
+Hendon was touched.  The water welled to his eyes, yet at the same time
+the grisly humour of the situation and circumstances so undermined his
+gravity that it was all he could do to keep some sign of his inward mirth
+from showing outside.  To be suddenly hoisted, naked and gory, from the
+common stocks to the Alpine altitude and splendour of an Earldom, seemed
+to him the last possibility in the line of the grotesque.  He said to
+himself, "Now am I finely tinselled, indeed!  The spectre-knight of the
+Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows is become a spectre-earl--a dizzy flight
+for a callow wing!  An' this go on, I shall presently be hung like a very
+maypole with fantastic gauds and make-believe honours.  But I shall value
+them, all valueless as they are, for the love that doth bestow them.
+Better these poor mock dignities of mine, that come unasked, from a clean
+hand and a right spirit, than real ones bought by servility from grudging
+and interested power."
+
+The dreaded Sir Hugh wheeled his horse about, and as he spurred away, the
+living wall divided silently to let him pass, and as silently closed
+together again.  And so remained; nobody went so far as to venture a
+remark in favour of the prisoner, or in compliment to him; but no matter
+--the absence of abuse was a sufficient homage in itself.  A late comer
+who was not posted as to the present circumstances, and who delivered a
+sneer at the 'impostor,' and was in the act of following it with a dead
+cat, was promptly knocked down and kicked out, without any words, and
+then the deep quiet resumed sway once more.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXIX. To London.
+
+When Hendon's term of service in the stocks was finished, he was released
+and ordered to quit the region and come back no more. His sword was
+restored to him, and also his mule and his donkey. He mounted and rode
+off, followed by the King, the crowd opening with quiet respectfulness to
+let them pass, and then dispersing when they were gone.
+
+Hendon was soon absorbed in thought.  There were questions of high import
+to be answered.  What should he do?  Whither should he go? Powerful help
+must be found somewhere, or he must relinquish his inheritance and remain
+under the imputation of being an impostor besides.  Where could he hope
+to find this powerful help?  Where, indeed!  It was a knotty question.
+By-and-by a thought occurred to him which pointed to a possibility--the
+slenderest of slender possibilities, certainly, but still worth
+considering, for lack of any other that promised anything at all.  He
+remembered what old Andrews had said about the young King's goodness and
+his generous championship of the wronged and unfortunate.  Why not go and
+try to get speech of him and beg for justice?  Ah, yes, but could so
+fantastic a pauper get admission to the august presence of a monarch?
+Never mind--let that matter take care of itself; it was a bridge that
+would not need to be crossed till he should come to it.  He was an old
+campaigner, and used to inventing shifts and expedients:  no doubt he
+would be able to find a way.  Yes, he would strike for the capital.
+Maybe his father's old friend Sir Humphrey Marlow would help him--'good
+old Sir Humphrey, Head Lieutenant of the late King's kitchen, or stables,
+or something'--Miles could not remember just what or which.  Now that he
+had something to turn his energies to, a distinctly defined object to
+accomplish, the fog of humiliation and depression which had settled down
+upon his spirits lifted and blew away, and he raised his head and looked
+about him.  He was surprised to see how far he had come; the village was
+away behind him.  The King was jogging along in his wake, with his head
+bowed; for he, too, was deep in plans and thinkings.  A sorrowful
+misgiving clouded Hendon's new-born cheerfulness:  would the boy be
+willing to go again to a city where, during all his brief life, he had
+never known anything but ill-usage and pinching want?  But the question
+must be asked; it could not be avoided; so Hendon reined up, and called
+out--
+
+"I had forgotten to inquire whither we are bound.  Thy commands, my
+liege!"
+
+"To London!"
+
+Hendon moved on again, mightily contented with the answer--but astounded
+at it too.
+
+The whole journey was made without an adventure of importance. But it
+ended with one.  About ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of February
+they stepped upon London Bridge, in the midst of a writhing, struggling
+jam of howling and hurrahing people, whose beer-jolly faces stood out
+strongly in the glare from manifold torches--and at that instant the
+decaying head of some former duke or other grandee tumbled down between
+them, striking Hendon on the elbow and then bounding off among the
+hurrying confusion of feet. So evanescent and unstable are men's works in
+this world!--the late good King is but three weeks dead and three days in
+his grave, and already the adornments which he took such pains to select
+from prominent people for his noble bridge are falling.  A citizen
+stumbled over that head, and drove his own head into the back of somebody
+in front of him, who turned and knocked down the first person that came
+handy, and was promptly laid out himself by that person's friend.  It was
+the right ripe time for a free fight, for the festivities of the morrow
+--Coronation Day--were already beginning; everybody was full of strong
+drink and patriotism; within five minutes the free fight was occupying a
+good deal of ground; within ten or twelve it covered an acre of so, and
+was become a riot.  By this time Hendon and the King were hopelessly
+separated from each other and lost in the rush and turmoil of the roaring
+masses of humanity.  And so we leave them.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXX. Tom's progress.
+
+Whilst the true King wandered about the land poorly clad, poorly fed,
+cuffed and derided by tramps one while, herding with thieves and
+murderers in a jail another, and called idiot and impostor by all
+impartially, the mock King Tom Canty enjoyed quite a different
+experience.
+
+When we saw him last, royalty was just beginning to have a bright side
+for him.  This bright side went on brightening more and more every day:
+in a very little while it was become almost all sunshine and
+delightfulness.  He lost his fears; his misgivings faded out and died;
+his embarrassments departed, and gave place to an easy and confident
+bearing.  He worked the whipping-boy mine to ever-increasing profit.
+
+He ordered my Lady Elizabeth and my Lady Jane Grey into his presence when
+he wanted to play or talk, and dismissed them when he was done with them,
+with the air of one familiarly accustomed to such performances.  It no
+longer confused him to have these lofty personages kiss his hand at
+parting.
+
+He came to enjoy being conducted to bed in state at night, and dressed
+with intricate and solemn ceremony in the morning.  It came to be a proud
+pleasure to march to dinner attended by a glittering procession of
+officers of state and gentlemen-at-arms; insomuch, indeed, that he
+doubled his guard of gentlemen-at-arms, and made them a hundred.  He
+liked to hear the bugles sounding down the long corridors, and the
+distant voices responding, "Way for the King!"
+
+He even learned to enjoy sitting in throned state in council, and seeming
+to be something more than the Lord Protector's mouthpiece. He liked to
+receive great ambassadors and their gorgeous trains, and listen to the
+affectionate messages they brought from illustrious monarchs who called
+him brother.  O happy Tom Canty, late of Offal Court!
+
+He enjoyed his splendid clothes, and ordered more:  he found his four
+hundred servants too few for his proper grandeur, and trebled them.  The
+adulation of salaaming courtiers came to be sweet music to his ears.  He
+remained kind and gentle, and a sturdy and determined champion of all
+that were oppressed, and he made tireless war upon unjust laws:  yet upon
+occasion, being offended, he could turn upon an earl, or even a duke, and
+give him a look that would make him tremble.  Once, when his royal
+'sister,' the grimly holy Lady Mary, set herself to reason with him
+against the wisdom of his course in pardoning so many people who would
+otherwise be jailed, or hanged, or burned, and reminded him that their
+august late father's prisons had sometimes contained as high as sixty
+thousand convicts at one time, and that during his admirable reign he had
+delivered seventy-two thousand thieves and robbers over to death by the
+executioner, {9} the boy was filled with generous indignation, and
+commanded her to go to her closet, and beseech God to take away the stone
+that was in her breast, and give her a human heart.
+
+Did Tom Canty never feel troubled about the poor little rightful prince
+who had treated him so kindly, and flown out with such hot zeal to avenge
+him upon the insolent sentinel at the palace-gate? Yes; his first royal
+days and nights were pretty well sprinkled with painful thoughts about
+the lost prince, and with sincere longings for his return, and happy
+restoration to his native rights and splendours.  But as time wore on,
+and the prince did not come, Tom's mind became more and more occupied
+with his new and enchanting experiences, and by little and little the
+vanished monarch faded almost out of his thoughts; and finally, when he
+did intrude upon them at intervals, he was become an unwelcome spectre,
+for he made Tom feel guilty and ashamed.
+
+Tom's poor mother and sisters travelled the same road out of his mind.
+At first he pined for them, sorrowed for them, longed to see them, but
+later, the thought of their coming some day in their rags and dirt, and
+betraying him with their kisses, and pulling him down from his lofty
+place, and dragging him back to penury and degradation and the slums,
+made him shudder.  At last they ceased to trouble his thoughts almost
+wholly.  And he was content, even glad:  for, whenever their mournful and
+accusing faces did rise before him now, they made him feel more
+despicable than the worms that crawl.
+
+At midnight of the 19th of February, Tom Canty was sinking to sleep in
+his rich bed in the palace, guarded by his loyal vassals, and surrounded
+by the pomps of royalty, a happy boy; for tomorrow was the day appointed
+for his solemn crowning as King of England. At that same hour, Edward,
+the true king, hungry and thirsty, soiled and draggled, worn with travel,
+and clothed in rags and shreds--his share of the results of the riot--was
+wedged in among a crowd of people who were watching with deep interest
+certain hurrying gangs of workmen who streamed in and out of Westminster
+Abbey, busy as ants:  they were making the last preparation for the royal
+coronation.
+
+
+
+Chapter XXXI. The Recognition procession.
+
+When Tom Canty awoke the next morning, the air was heavy with a
+thunderous murmur:  all the distances were charged with it.  It was music
+to him; for it meant that the English world was out in its strength to
+give loyal welcome to the great day.
+
+Presently Tom found himself once more the chief figure in a wonderful
+floating pageant on the Thames; for by ancient custom the 'recognition
+procession' through London must start from the Tower, and he was bound
+thither.
+
+When he arrived there, the sides of the venerable fortress seemed
+suddenly rent in a thousand places, and from every rent leaped a red
+tongue of flame and a white gush of smoke; a deafening explosion
+followed, which drowned the shoutings of the multitude, and made the
+ground tremble; the flame-jets, the smoke, and the explosions, were
+repeated over and over again with marvellous celerity, so that in a few
+moments the old Tower disappeared in the vast fog of its own smoke, all
+but the very top of the tall pile called the White Tower; this, with its
+banners, stood out above the dense bank of vapour as a mountain-peak
+projects above a cloud-rack.
+
+Tom Canty, splendidly arrayed, mounted a prancing war-steed, whose rich
+trappings almost reached to the ground; his 'uncle,' the Lord Protector
+Somerset, similarly mounted, took place in his rear; the King's Guard
+formed in single ranks on either side, clad in burnished armour; after
+the Protector followed a seemingly interminable procession of resplendent
+nobles attended by their vassals; after these came the lord mayor and the
+aldermanic body, in crimson velvet robes, and with their gold chains
+across their breasts; and after these the officers and members of all the
+guilds of London, in rich raiment, and bearing the showy banners of the
+several corporations.  Also in the procession, as a special guard of
+honour through the city, was the Ancient and Honourable Artillery
+Company--an organisation already three hundred years old at that time,
+and the only military body in England possessing the privilege (which it
+still possesses in our day) of holding itself independent of the commands
+of Parliament.  It was a brilliant spectacle, and was hailed with
+acclamations all along the line, as it took its stately way through the
+packed multitudes of citizens. The chronicler says, 'The King, as he
+entered the city, was received by the people with prayers, welcomings,
+cries, and tender words, and all signs which argue an earnest love of
+subjects toward their sovereign; and the King, by holding up his glad
+countenance to such as stood afar off, and most tender language to those
+that stood nigh his Grace, showed himself no less thankful to receive the
+people's goodwill than they to offer it.  To all that wished him well, he
+gave thanks.  To such as bade "God save his Grace," he said in return,
+"God save you all!" and added that "he thanked them with all his heart."
+Wonderfully transported were the people with the loving answers and
+gestures of their King.'
+
+In Fenchurch Street a 'fair child, in costly apparel,' stood on a stage
+to welcome his Majesty to the city.  The last verse of his greeting was
+in these words--
+
+'Welcome, O King! as much as hearts can think; Welcome, again, as much as
+tongue can tell,--Welcome to joyous tongues, and hearts that will not
+shrink: God thee preserve, we pray, and wish thee ever well.'
+
+The people burst forth in a glad shout, repeating with one voice what the
+child had said.  Tom Canty gazed abroad over the surging sea of eager
+faces, and his heart swelled with exultation; and he felt that the one
+thing worth living for in this world was to be a king, and a nation's
+idol.  Presently he caught sight, at a distance, of a couple of his
+ragged Offal Court comrades--one of them the lord high admiral in his
+late mimic court, the other the first lord of the bedchamber in the same
+pretentious fiction; and his pride swelled higher than ever.  Oh, if they
+could only recognise him now!  What unspeakable glory it would be, if
+they could recognise him, and realise that the derided mock king of the
+slums and back alleys was become a real King, with illustrious dukes and
+princes for his humble menials, and the English world at his feet!  But
+he had to deny himself, and choke down his desire, for such a recognition
+might cost more than it would come to:  so he turned away his head, and
+left the two soiled lads to go on with their shoutings and glad
+adulations, unsuspicious of whom it was they were lavishing them upon.
+
+Every now and then rose the cry, "A largess! a largess!" and Tom
+responded by scattering a handful of bright new coins abroad for the
+multitude to scramble for.
+
+The chronicler says, 'At the upper end of Gracechurch Street, before the
+sign of the Eagle, the city had erected a gorgeous arch, beneath which
+was a stage, which stretched from one side of the street to the other.
+This was an historical pageant, representing the King's immediate
+progenitors.  There sat Elizabeth of York in the midst of an immense
+white rose, whose petals formed elaborate furbelows around her; by her
+side was Henry VII., issuing out of a vast red rose, disposed in the same
+manner:  the hands of the royal pair were locked together, and the
+wedding-ring ostentatiously displayed.  From the red and white roses
+proceeded a stem, which reached up to a second stage, occupied by Henry
+VIII., issuing from a red and white rose, with the effigy of the new
+King's mother, Jane Seymour, represented by his side.  One branch sprang
+from this pair, which mounted to a third stage, where sat the effigy of
+Edward VI. himself, enthroned in royal majesty; and the whole pageant was
+framed with wreaths of roses, red and white.'
+
+This quaint and gaudy spectacle so wrought upon the rejoicing people,
+that their acclamations utterly smothered the small voice of the child
+whose business it was to explain the thing in eulogistic rhymes.  But Tom
+Canty was not sorry; for this loyal uproar was sweeter music to him than
+any poetry, no matter what its quality might be.  Whithersoever Tom
+turned his happy young face, the people recognised the exactness of his
+effigy's likeness to himself, the flesh and blood counterpart; and new
+whirlwinds of applause burst forth.
+
+The great pageant moved on, and still on, under one triumphal arch after
+another, and past a bewildering succession of spectacular and symbolical
+tableaux, each of which typified and exalted some virtue, or talent, or
+merit, of the little King's.  'Throughout the whole of Cheapside, from
+every penthouse and window, hung banners and streamers; and the richest
+carpets, stuffs, and cloth-of-gold tapestried the streets--specimens of
+the great wealth of the stores within; and the splendour of this
+thoroughfare was equalled in the other streets, and in some even
+surpassed.'
+
+"And all these wonders and these marvels are to welcome me--me!" murmured
+Tom Canty.
+
+The mock King's cheeks were flushed with excitement, his eyes were
+flashing, his senses swam in a delirium of pleasure.  At this point, just
+as he was raising his hand to fling another rich largess, he caught sight
+of a pale, astounded face, which was strained forward out of the second
+rank of the crowd, its intense eyes riveted upon him.  A sickening
+consternation struck through him; he recognised his mother! and up flew
+his hand, palm outward, before his eyes--that old involuntary gesture,
+born of a forgotten episode, and perpetuated by habit.  In an instant
+more she had torn her way out of the press, and past the guards, and was
+at his side.  She embraced his leg, she covered it with kisses, she
+cried, "O my child, my darling!" lifting toward him a face that was
+transfigured with joy and love.  The same instant an officer of the
+King's Guard snatched her away with a curse, and sent her reeling back
+whence she came with a vigorous impulse from his strong arm.  The words
+"I do not know you, woman!" were falling from Tom Canty's lips when this
+piteous thing occurred; but it smote him to the heart to see her treated
+so; and as she turned for a last glimpse of him, whilst the crowd was
+swallowing her from his sight, she seemed so wounded, so broken-hearted,
+that a shame fell upon him which consumed his pride to ashes, and
+withered his stolen royalty.  His grandeurs were stricken valueless:
+they seemed to fall away from him like rotten rags.
+
+The procession moved on, and still on, through ever augmenting splendours
+and ever augmenting tempests of welcome; but to Tom Canty they were as if
+they had not been.  He neither saw nor heard.  Royalty had lost its grace
+and sweetness; its pomps were become a reproach.  Remorse was eating his
+heart out.  He said, "Would God I were free of my captivity!"
+
+He had unconsciously dropped back into the phraseology of the first days
+of his compulsory greatness.
+
+The shining pageant still went winding like a radiant and interminable
+serpent down the crooked lanes of the quaint old city, and through the
+huzzaing hosts; but still the King rode with bowed head and vacant eyes,
+seeing only his mother's face and that wounded look in it.
+
+"Largess, largess!"  The cry fell upon an unheeding ear.
+
+"Long live Edward of England!"  It seemed as if the earth shook with the
+explosion; but there was no response from the King.  He heard it only as
+one hears the thunder of the surf when it is blown to the ear out of a
+great distance, for it was smothered under another sound which was still
+nearer, in his own breast, in his accusing conscience--a voice which kept
+repeating those shameful words, "I do not know you, woman!"
+
+The words smote upon the King's soul as the strokes of a funeral bell
+smite upon the soul of a surviving friend when they remind him of secret
+treacheries suffered at his hands by him that is gone.
+
+New glories were unfolded at every turning; new wonders, new marvels,
+sprang into view; the pent clamours of waiting batteries were released;
+new raptures poured from the throats of the waiting multitudes:  but the
+King gave no sign, and the accusing voice that went moaning through his
+comfortless breast was all the sound he heard.
+
+By-and-by the gladness in the faces of the populace changed a little, and
+became touched with a something like solicitude or anxiety:  an abatement
+in the volume of the applause was observable too.  The Lord Protector was
+quick to notice these things:  he was as quick to detect the cause.  He
+spurred to the King's side, bent low in his saddle, uncovered, and said--
+
+"My liege, it is an ill time for dreaming.  The people observe thy
+downcast head, thy clouded mien, and they take it for an omen.  Be
+advised:  unveil the sun of royalty, and let it shine upon these boding
+vapours, and disperse them.  Lift up thy face, and smile upon the
+people."
+
+So saying, the Duke scattered a handful of coins to right and left, then
+retired to his place.  The mock King did mechanically as he had been
+bidden.  His smile had no heart in it, but few eyes were near enough or
+sharp enough to detect that.  The noddings of his plumed head as he
+saluted his subjects were full of grace and graciousness; the largess
+which he delivered from his hand was royally liberal:  so the people's
+anxiety vanished, and the acclamations burst forth again in as mighty a
+volume as before.
+
+Still once more, a little before the progress was ended, the Duke was
+obliged to ride forward, and make remonstrance.  He whispered--
+
+"O dread sovereign! shake off these fatal humours; the eyes of the world
+are upon thee."  Then he added with sharp annoyance, "Perdition catch
+that crazy pauper! 'twas she that hath disturbed your Highness."
+
+The gorgeous figure turned a lustreless eye upon the Duke, and said in a
+dead voice--
+
+"She was my mother!"
+
+"My God!" groaned the Protector as he reined his horse backward to his
+post, "the omen was pregnant with prophecy.  He is gone mad again!"
+
+
+
+
+
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