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18 stayed in this country if the King did not remain in hiding? You are no better than a flagrant heretic.

My dear pillar of orthodoxy! Do you think any other King would have hesitated to cut off your tongue and make it food for dogs? And you have the face to say that our King is horrid to look at!

Look here, Vishu, will you curb your tongue?

It would be superfluous to point out whose tongue needs the curbing.

Hush, my dear friends—this looks rather bad. . . . It seems as if they