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Updated: May 11, 2025
'Certainly of course, said Raymond, anxious not to seem ignorant of fashionable customs. 'But whom do the conspirators mean to put on the throne in your stead? Your son? 'My Assimund, you mean? Well, that is just the point. My son Assimund is a perfectly harmless young fellow, but in fact he is rather too much so. 'Too much so?
'If your Majesty will let me hang this half of a brass farthing round your neck, interrupted Silvia, 'you will have no more doubts about the matter. And as she spoke she held the farthing towards him, with a mischievous smile. 'But don't you care at all for Assimund? he asked her. 'The interests of the State are supreme, returned Silvia with a grand air.
'People of England, he then continued, facing the audience, 'I have been King over you for half an hour, and I have had enough of it. But, before abdicating, I will place the crown on brows worthier to wear it than mine. Behold Prince Assimund, no longer a pretender, but to be hereafter your absolute and legitimate monarch.
'But he will never again cross my path, replied Yellow-cap. 'King Assimund, he added, 'accept my parting gift before I go. With this and with your crown, and with Silvia to whisper worldly wisdom in your ear, it will be your own fault if you are not the mightiest sovereign in Christendom.
'That fellow who owns the donkey the Prince of Sprats? cried Yellow-cap. 'He the son of King Ormund? 'Prince Assimund yes. I spoke to you of him yesterday. A little queer in the head, you know, but that is only a sign of his royalty. 'All this may be so, replied Yellow-cap, stroking his chin; 'but as to my marrying Silvia that seems rather sudden.
When this had been done he turned to the village maiden. 'Get up behind me on the donkey, he said, 'and put your arms round my waist. The maiden obeyed, the donkey standing quite still, and not so much as moving the end of its tail. 'Now let Assimund, Prince of Sprats, approach, said the King.
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