It startled and surprised him to hear them break into a vast roar of laughter.

It wounded his dignity, and he locked himself up in silence.

Then, although the crowd begged him to go on, and tried to provoke him to it by catcalls, jeers, and shouts of: "Let him speak! The king! The king! his humble subjects hunger and thirst for words of wisdom out of the mouth of their master his Serene and Sacred Raggedness!" But it went for nothing.

He put on all his majesty and sat under this rain of contempt and insult unmoved.

He certainly was great in his way.