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34 and acknowledging—if it is a real King, well and good: if not, what harm is there?

I should not have minded if the stones were nothing better than stones. But they are often precious things: here, as elsewhere, extravagance lands us in poverty, my friend.

Look! There comes the King! Ah, a King indeed! What a figure, what a face! Whoever saw such beauty—lily-White, creamy-soft! What now, Kumbha? What do you think now?

He looks all right—yes, he may be the real King for all I know!