4/25 "More careful than that which one accords to official announcements." "Well, the dumb boy was not satisfactory. Those who were paid for this affair began to be alarmed. Half the crowned heads in Europe, and all the women, were ready to open their purses for the sake of a little boy, whose ill-treatment appealed to their soft hearts: who in a sense was sacred, for he was descended from sixty-six kings. |