The Prince and The Pauper


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yonder is the market-place." "Here is the Maypole, and here the pump  
-nothing is altered; nothing but the people, at any rate; ten years make a  
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change in people; some of these I seem to know, but none know me." So  
his chat ran on. The end of the village was soon reached; then the  
travellers struck into a crooked, narrow road, walled in with tall  
hedges, and hurried briskly along it for half a mile, then passed into a  
vast flower garden through an imposing gateway, whose huge stone pillars  
bore sculptured armorial devices. A noble mansion was before them.  
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Welcome to Hendon Hall, my King!" exclaimed Miles. "Ah, 'tis a great  
day! My father and my brother, and the Lady Edith will be so mad with  
joy that they will have eyes and tongue for none but me in the first  
transports of the meeting, and so thou'lt seem but coldly welcomed--but  
mind it not; 'twill soon seem otherwise; for when I say thou art my ward,  
and tell them how costly is my love for thee, thou'lt see them take thee  
to their breasts for Miles Hendon's sake, and make their house and hearts  
thy home for ever after!"  
The next moment Hendon sprang to the ground before the great door,  
helped the King down, then took him by the hand and rushed within. A few  
steps brought him to a spacious apartment; he entered, seated the King  
with more hurry than ceremony, then ran toward a young man who sat at a  
writing-table in front of a generous fire of logs.  
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