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The Napoleon of Notting Hill

CHAPTER I--_The Charter of the Cities_
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Dying speech for death at hands of injured husband (repentant).

Dying speech for same (cynical).

I am not quite sure which meets the present...." "I'm the King of the Castle," said the boy, truculently, and very pleased with nothing in particular.
The King was a kind-hearted man, and very fond of children, like all people who are fond of the ridiculous.
"Infant," he said, "I'm glad you are so stalwart a defender of your old inviolate Notting Hill.

Look up nightly to that peak, my child, where it lifts itself among the stars so ancient, so lonely, so unutterably Notting.

So long as you are ready to die for the sacred mountain, even if it were ringed with all the armies of Bayswater--" The King stopped suddenly, and his eyes shone.
"Perhaps," he said, "perhaps the noblest of all my conceptions.


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