"You had a very wild look when you came in, Mr.
Mallock." "Yet His Majesty came; and unarmed!" I cried: "and as happy as--as a King!" "Why, what else ?" asked Mr.Chiffinch.
Our eyes met; and for the first time I understood how even a man like this, with his pandering to the King's pleasures, and his own evil life, could have as much love and admiration for such a man, as I myself had..