"Are you a prince ?" she asked, "and is the grand gentleman with, the long hair and the purple coat the King ?" The fisherman laughed.

"No, little one, I'm only a poor ensign.

The gentleman yonder, being the representative in Virginia of my Lord of Orkney and his Majesty King George the First, may somewhat smack of royalty.

Indeed, there are good Virginians who think that were the King himself amongst us he could not more thoroughly play my Lord Absolute.

But he's only the Governor of Virginia, after all, bright eyes." "Does he live in a palace, like the King?
My father once saw the King's house in a place they call London." The gentleman laughed again.