His subjects will some day give him enough anxiety.

He must grow to be a mighty man for their sakes, and I doubt not that his nurse gives him better nourishment to that end than I could who am only a weak woman.

But you, you poor, dear, little ill-omened mite, I shall nourish you myself, and if your life is unhappy it shall not be because I have not done my best." When the Chief Priest came to her, to ask her what name she had chosen for the second boy--the first, of course, was to be Wendelin XVI--she remembered her dream, and answered quickly: "Let him be named George, for it was he who killed the dragon." The old man understood her meaning, and answered earnestly: "That is a good name for him." Time passed, and both of the princes flourished.

George was nourished by his own mother, Wendelin by a hired nurse.

They learned to babble and coo, then to walk and talk, for in this respect the sons of dukes with grey locks are just like other boys.