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The Napoleon of Notting Hill

CHAPTER III--_Enter a Lunatic_
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You have given me this liberty.

If I had been a beggar and you had flung me a coin, if I had been a peasant in a dance and you had flung me a favour, do you think I would have let it be taken by any ruffians on the road?
This leadership and liberty of Notting Hill is a gift from your Majesty, and if it is taken from me, by God! it shall be taken in battle, and the noise of that battle shall be heard in the flats of Chelsea and in the studios of St.John's Wood." "It is too much--it is too much," said the King.

"Nature is weak.

I must speak to you, brother artist, without further disguise.

Let me ask you a solemn question.


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