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He hath the throne's protection, he hath the crown's support, he shall be known and called by the honourable title of the King's Ward." The proud and happy Tom Canty rose and kissed the King's hand, and was conducted from the presence. He did not waste any time, but flew to his mother, to tell her and Nan and Bet all about it and get them to help him enjoy the great news. Conclusion.
He wasted no time, but dived among the forest of legs about him and disappeared. In another moment he could not have been harder to find, under that tossing sea of life, if its billows had been the Atlantic's and he a lost sixpence. He very soon realised this fact, and straightway busied himself about his own affairs without further thought of John Canty. He quickly realised another thing, too.
He reached the platform, paused a moment, then moved toward Tom Canty with a deep obeisance, and said "Sire, the Seal is not there!" A mob does not melt away from the presence of a plague-patient with more haste than the band of pallid and terrified courtiers melted away from the presence of the shabby little claimant of the Crown.
There was a waiting pause; then, at a signal, a triumphant peal of music burst forth, and Tom Canty, clothed in a long robe of cloth of gold, appeared at a door, and stepped upon the platform. The entire multitude rose, and the ceremony of the Recognition ensued.
Dalzell, in the meantime, had swum back again. Susie Danes lay as still as death in the bottom of the boat. As Dalzell got back where he had first reached Foss and Susie, he espied the head of Ab Canty some distance away. "Ab!" called Dan. "Here!" "What has become of Ella?" "Oh, I wish I knew!" "Was she afloat at all!" demanded Dan, swimming nearer.
A fine, canty, friendly, cracky man, that suffered with the stomach, poor body! and was real ta'en up about the goodbrother. O man, David, try and learn to have some kind of intelligence!" "I'll try, Alan," said I. "And now for him of the red head," says he; "was he gaun fast or slow?" "Betwixt and between," said I. "No kind of a hurry about the man?" he asked.
Then a noble anthem swept the Abbey with its rich waves of sound; and thus heralded and welcomed, Tom Canty was conducted to the throne.
But there was no talk about the other baby, Tom Canty, lapped in his poor rags, except among the family of paupers whom he had just come to trouble with his presence. Let us skip a number of years. London was fifteen hundred years old, and was a great town for that day. It had a hundred thousand inhabitants some think double as many.
"The luntin' pipe an' sneeshin' mill Are handed round wi' richt guid will; The canty auld folks crackin' crouse, The young anes rantin' through the house My heart has been sae fain to see them, That I for joy hae barkit wi' them." It was this ardent power of sympathy that was fatal to so many women, and, through Jean Armour, to himself at last.
"And all these wonders and these marvels are to welcome me me!" murmured Tom Canty. The mock King's cheeks were flushed with excitement, his eyes were flashing, his senses swam in a delirium of pleasure.
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