# Quote — Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

> The little King dragged himself to the bed and lay down upon it, almost exhausted with hunger and fatigue... He murmured drowsily—
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> "Prithee call me when the table is spread," and sank into a deep sleep immediately.
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> A smile twinkled in Hendon's eye, and he said to himself—
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> "By the mass, the little beggar takes to one's quarters and usurps one's bed with as natural and easy a grace as if he owned them..."

- Author: [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md)
- Book: [The Prince and the Pauper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-prince-and-the-pauper.md)
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> "Let the child go," said he; "ye heartless dogs, do ye not see how young and frail he is? Let him go—I will take his lashes."

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> The distant dogs howled, the melancholy kine complained, and the winds went on raging, whilst furious sheets of rain drove along the roof; but the Majesty of England slept on, undisturbed, and the calf did the same, it being a simple creature, and not easily troubled by storms or embarrassed by sleeping with a king.

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> "Rise, Sir Miles Hendon, Knight," said the King, gravely—giving the accolade with Hendon's sword—"rise, and seat thyself. Thy petition is granted. Whilst England remains, and the crown continues, the privilege shall not lapse."

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