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The Prince and The Pauper

CHAPTER XIII
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At that moment a servant entered with the breakfast.
"Explain, thou limb of Satan, or thy time is come!" roared the man of war, and made so savage a spring toward the waiter that this latter could not find his tongue, for the instant, for fright and surprise.

"Where is the boy ?" In disjointed and trembling syllables the man gave the information desired.
"You were hardly gone from the place, your worship, when a youth came running and said it was your worship's will that the boy come to you straight, at the bridge-end on the Southwark side.

I brought him hither; and when he woke the lad and gave his message, the lad did grumble some little for being disturbed 'so early,' as he called it, but straightway trussed on his rags and went with the youth, only saying it had been better manners that your worship came yourself, not sent a stranger--and so--" "And so thou'rt a fool!--a fool and easily cozened--hang all thy breed! Yet mayhap no hurt is done.

Possibly no harm is meant the boy.

I will go fetch him.


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