France is tossed about by it, while England stands and is hammered on the anvil of Time, as it were, and remains just the same shape as before." He broke off and turned to Sep.
"Do you know the story of the little boy who was a King ?" he asked, abruptly.

"They put him in prison and he escaped.

He was carried out in a clothes-basket.

Funny, is it not?
And he escaped from his enemies and reached another country, where he became a sailor.

He grew to be a man and he married a woman of that country, and she died, leaving him with a little boy.