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burst through the portal, half-smothered with royal wrath, the soldier
fetched him a sounding box on the ear that sent him whirling to the
roadway, and said--
"
Take that, thou beggar's spawn, for what thou got'st me from his
Highness!"
The crowd roared with laughter. The prince picked himself out of the
mud, and made fiercely at the sentry, shouting--
"
I am the Prince of Wales, my person is sacred; and thou shalt hang for
laying thy hand upon me!"
The soldier brought his halberd to a present-arms and said mockingly--
"I salute your gracious Highness." Then angrily--"Be off, thou crazy
rubbish!"
Here the jeering crowd closed round the poor little prince, and hustled
him far down the road, hooting him, and shouting--
"
Way for his Royal Highness! Way for the Prince of Wales!"
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