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Monday Jul 19, 2021

The Prince and the Pauper - Chapter III - Mark Twain

Monday Jul 19, 2021

The Prince and the Pauper
Chapter III - Mark Twain
Tom got up hungry, and sauntered hungry away, but with his thoughts busy with the shadowy splendours of his night's dreams. He wandered here and there in the city, hardly noticing where he was going, or what was happening around him. People jostled him, and some gave him rough speech; but it was all lost on the musing boy. By-and-by he found himself at Temple Bar, the farthest from home he had ever travelled in that direction. He stopped and considered a moment, then fell into his imaginings again, and passed on outside the walls of London.

Sunday Jul 18, 2021

The Prince and the Pauper - Chapters I and II - Mark Twain

Sunday Jul 18, 2021

The Prince and the Pauper
Chapters I and II - Mark Twain
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another English child was born to a rich family of the name of Tudor, who did want him. All England wanted him too. England had so longed for him, and hoped for him, and prayed God for him, that, now that he was really come, the people went nearly mad for joy.