THE GREAT SEAL (frontispiece)
THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
“SPLENDID PAGEANTS AND GREAT BONFIRES”
“WITH ANY MISERABLE CRUST”
“HE OFTEN READ THE PRIEST’S BOOKS”
“SAW POOR ANNE ASKEW BURNED”
“BROUGHT THEIR PERPLEXITIES TO TOM”
“LONGING FOR THE PORK-PIES”
TOM’S MEETING WITH THE PRINCE
“DOFF THY RAGS, AND DON THESE SPLENDORS”
“I SALUTE YOUR GRACIOUS HIGHNESS!”
THE PRINCE’S TROUBLES BEGIN
“A DRUNKEN RUFFIAN COLLARED HIM”
“NEXT HE DREW THE SWORD”
“THE BOY WAS ON HIS KNEES”
“NOBLES WALKED UPON EACH SIDE OF HIM”
“HE DROPPED UPON HIS KNEES”
“HE TURNED WITH JOYFUL FACE”
“THE PHYSICIAN BOWED LOW”
“THE KING FELL BACK UPON HIS COUCH”
“IS THIS MAN TO LIVE FOREVER?”
TOM RECEIVES INSTRUCTIONS
“THE LORD ST. JOHN MADE REVERENCE”
HERTFORD AND THE PRINCESSES
“OFFERED IT TO HIM ON A GOLDEN SALVER”
“PEACE MY LORD, THOU UTTEREST TREASON!”
“HE BEGAN TO PACE THE FLOOR”
TOM’S FIRST ROYAL DINNER
“FASTENED A NAPKIN ABOUT HIS NECK”
“TOM ATE WITH HIS FINGERS”
“HE GRAVELY TOOK A DRAUGHT”
“TOM PUT ON THE GREAVES”
THE QUESTION OF THE SEAL
“EASED HIM BACK UPON HIS PILLOWS”
“HALBERDIERS APPEARED IN THE GATEWAY”
“TOM CANTY STEPPED INTO VIEW”
THE PRINCE IN THE TOILS
“A DIM FORM SANK TO THE GROUND”
“INTO GOOD WIFE CANTY’S ARMS”
“BENT HEEDFULLY AND WARILY OVER HIM”
“HURRIED HIM ALONG THE DARK WAY”
“A RICH CANOPY OF STATE”
“BEGAN TO LAY ABOUT HIM”
THE PRINCE AND HIS DELIVERER
“OUR FRIENDS THREADED THEIR WAY”
“OBJECT LESSONS” IN ENGLISH HISTORY
“SMOOTHING BACK THE TANGLED CURLS”
“PRITHEE, POUR THE WATER”
“GO ON--TELL ME THY STORY
“THOU HAST BEEN SHAMEFULLY ABUSED”
“HE DROPPED ON ONE KNEE”
“RISE, SIR MILES HENDON, BARONET”
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PRINCE
“THESE BE VERY GOOD AND SOUND”
“EXPLAIN, THOU LIMB OF SATAN”
“HENDON FOLLOWED AFTER HIM”
“LE ROI EST MORT-VIVE LE ROI”
“WILT DEIGN TO DELIVER THY COMMANDS?”
“LORD OF THE BEDCHAMBER”
“STOOD AT GRACEFUL EASE”
“‘TIS I THAT TAKE THEM”
“TOM HAD WANDERED TO A WINDOW”
“TOM SCANNED THE PRISONERS”
“LET THE PRISONER GO FREE!”
“WHAT IS IT THAT THESE HAVE DONE?”
“NODDED THEIR RECOGNITION”
“A GENTLEMAN BEARING A ROD”
“THE CHANCELLOR BETWEEN TWO”
“I THANK YOU MY GOOD PEOPLE”
“IN THE MIDST OF HIS PAGEANT”
“RUFFIAN FOLLOWED THEIR STEPS”
“HE SEIZED A BILLET OF WOOD”
“HE WAS SOON ABSORBED IN THINKING”
“A GRIM AND UNSIGHTLY PICTURE”
“THEY ROARED OUT A ROLLICKING DITTY”
“WHILST THE FLAMES LICKED UPWARDS”
“THEY WERE WHIPPED AT THE CART’S TAIL”
THE PRINCE WITH THE TRAMPS
“TROOP OF VAGABONDS SET FORWARD”
“THEY THREW BONES AND VEGETABLES
“WRITHE AND WALLOW IN THE DIRT”
“KING FLED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION”
“WHAT SEEMED TO BE A WARM ROPE”
“CUDDLED UP TO THE CALF”
THE PRINCE WITH THE PEASANTS
“TOOK A GOOD SATISFYING STARE”
“MOTHER RECEIVED THE KING KINDLY”
“BROUGHT THE KING OUT OF HIS DREAMS”
“GAVE HIM A BUTCHER KNIFE TO GRIND”
THE PRINCE AND THE HERMIT
“HE TURNED AND DESCRIED TWO FIGURES”
“THE KING ENTERED AND PAUSED”
“I WILL TELL YOU A SECRET”
“CHATTING PLEASANTLY ALL THE TIME”
“DREW HIS THUMB ALONG THE EDGE”
“THE NEXT MOMENT THEY WERE BOUND”
“GOD MADE EVERY CREATURE BUT YOU!”
“THE FETTERED LITTLE KING”
“HUGO STOOD NO CHANCE”
“BOUND THE POULTICE TIGHT AND FAST”
“TARRY HERE TILL I COME AGAIN
“KING SPRANG TO HIS DELIVERER’S SIDE”
“SHE SPRANG TO HER FEET”
“THE PIG MAY COST THY NECK, MAN”
“BEAR ME UP, BEAR ME UP, SWEET SIR!”
“JOGGING EASTWARD ON SORRY STEEDS”
“THERE IS THE VILLAGE, MY PRINCE!”
“‘EMBRACE ME, HUGH,’ HE CRIED”
“HUGH PUT UP HIS HAND IN DISSENT”
“A BEAUTIFUL LADY, RICHLY CLOTHED”
“HUGH WAS PINNED TO THE WALL”
“OBEY, AND HAVE NO FEAR”
“CHAINED IN A LARGE ROOM”
“THE OLD MAN LOOKED HENDON OVER”
“INFORMATION DELIVERED IN A LOW VOICE”
“THE KING!” HE CRIED. “WHAT KING?”
“TWO WOMEN CHAINED TO POSTS”
“TORN AWAY BY THE OFFICERS”
“THE KING WAS FURIOUS”
“HE CONFRONTED THE OFFICER IN CHARGE”
“WHILE THE LASH WAS APPLIED”
“SIR HUGH SPURRED AWAY”
“MOUNTED AND RODE OFF WITH THE KING”
“MIDST OF A JAM OF HOWLING PEOPLE”
“TO KISS HIS HAND AT PARTING”
“COMMANDED HER TO GO TO HER CLOSET”
THE RECOGNITION PROCESSION
THE START FOR THE TOWER
“A LARGESS! A LARGESS!”
“IT IS AN ILL TIME FOR DREAMING”
“GATHERS UP THE LADY’S LONG TRAIN”
“AND FELL ON HIS KNEES BEFORE HIM”
“THE GREAT SEAL--FETCH IT HITHER”
“SIRE, THE SEAL IS NOT THERE”
“BETHINK THEE, MY KING”
“LONG LIVE THE TRUE KING!”
“HE STRETCHED HIMSELF ON THE GROUND”
“ARRESTED AS A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER”
“TOM ROSE AND KISSED THE KING’S HAND”
JUSTICE AND RETRIBUTION
