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"Let the show go on!" shouted Canty. "What, Nan! what, Bet! Mannerless wenches! will ye stand in the prince's presence? Upon your knees, ye pauper scum, and do him reverence!"
He followed this with another horse-laugh. The girls began to plead timidly for their brother; and Nan said:
"An thou wilt but let him to bed, father, rest and sleep will heal his madness; prithee, do."
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Do, father," said Bet; "he is more worn than is his wont. To-morrow will he be himself again, and will beg with diligence, and come not empty home again."
This remark sobered the father's joviality, and brought his mind to business. He turned angrily upon the prince, and said:
"The morrow must we pay two pennies to him that owns this hole; two pennies mark ye-all this money for a half-year's rent, else out of this we go. Show what thou'st gathered with thy lazy begging."
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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