[Rienzi by Edward Bulwer Lytton]@TWC D-Link bookRienzi CHAPTER 4 8/19
Nourish not such thoughts, my son, they are sinful; at least I fear so.
Draw to the board and eat; we will go betimes, as petitioners should do." Angelo had soon finished his morning meal, and sallying with Ursula to the porch, he saw, to his surprise, four of those servitors who then usually attended persons of distinction, and who were to be hired in every city, for the convenience of strangers or the holyday ostentation of the gayer citizens. "How grand we are today!" said he, clapping his hands with an eagerness which Ursula failed not to reprove. "It is not for vain show," she added, "which true nobility can well dispense with, but that we may the more readily gain admittance to the palace.
These princes of yesterday are not easy of audience to the over humble." "Oh! but you are wrong this time," said the boy.
"The Tribune gives audience to all men, the poorest as the richest.
Nay, there is not a ragged boor, or a bare-footed friar, who does not win access to him sooner than the proudest baron.
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