The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper
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Марк Твен. The Prince and the Pauper

Chapter I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper

Chapter II. Tom’s early life

Chapter III. Tom’s meeting with the Prince

Chapter IV. The Prince’s troubles begin

Chapter V. Tom as a Patrician

Chapter VI. Tom receives instructions

Chapter VII. Tom’s first royal dinner

Chapter VIII. The Question of the Seal

Chapter IX. The river pageant

Chapter X. The Prince in the toils

Chapter XI. At Guildhall

Chapter XII. The Prince and his Deliverer

Chapter XIII. The disappearance of the Prince

Chapter XIV. ‘Le Roi est mort – vive le Roi.’

Chapter XV. Tom as King

Chapter XVI. The State Dinner

Chapter XVII. Foo-foo the First

Chapter XVIII. The Prince with the Tramps

Chapter XIX. The Prince with the peasants

Chapter XX. The Prince and the hermit

Chapter XXI. Hendon to the rescue

Chapter XXII. A Victim of Treachery

Chapter XXIII. The Prince a prisoner

Chapter XXIV. The Escape

Chapter XXV. Hendon Hall

Chapter XXVI. Disowned

Chapter XXVII. In Prison

Chapter XXVIII. The sacrifice

Chapter XXIX. To London

Chapter XXX. Tom’s progress

Chapter XXXI. The Recognition procession

Chapter XXXII. Coronation Day

Chapter XXXIII. Edward as King

NOTES

NOTE 1, Chapter IV. Christ’s Hospital Costume

NOTE 2, Chapter IV

NOTE 3, Chapter V. The Duke of Norfolk’s Condemnation commanded

NOTE 4, Chapter VII

NOTE 5, Chapter VIII. Attainder of Norfolk

NOTE 6, Chapter X. The Loving-cup

NOTE 7, Chapter XI. The Duke of Norfolk’s narrow Escape

NOTE 8, Chapter XIV. The Whipping-boy

NOTES to Chapter XV

NOTE 10, Chapter XVII. Enslaving

NOTES to Chapter XXIII. Death for Trifling Larcenies

NOTES to Chapter XXVII

NOTES to Chapter XXXIII

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Let us skip a number of years.

London was fifteen hundred years old, and was a great town – for that day. It had a hundred thousand inhabitants – some think double as many. The streets were very narrow, and crooked, and dirty, especially in the part where Tom Canty lived, which was not far from London Bridge. The houses were of wood, with the second story projecting over the first, and the third sticking its elbows out beyond the second. The higher the houses grew, the broader they grew. They were skeletons of strong criss-cross beams, with solid material between, coated with plaster. The beams were painted red or blue or black, according to the owner’s taste, and this gave the houses a very picturesque look. The windows were small, glazed with little diamond-shaped panes, and they opened outward, on hinges, like doors.

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“And prithee, why not? Who helpeth them undress at night? Who attireth them when they rise?”

“None, sir. Would’st have them take off their garment, and sleep without – like the beasts?”

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