Цитаты из книги «The Prince and the Pauper / Принц и нищий. Книга для чтения на английском языке»

“There is no help, there is no hope.

The young girl seemed horror-stricken.

“The prince! See, the prince comes!”

He wondered if they would believe the marvellous tale he should tell when he got home, or if they would shake their heads, and say his overtaxed imagination had at last upset his reason.

Then came bitterness, and heart-break, and tears.

the atmosphere was murky; it was a melancholy day.

In fact he was become a hero to all who knew him except his own family – these, only, saw nothing in him.

One summer’s day he saw poor Anne Askew and three men burned at the stake in Smithfield

because of the washings and cleansings it afforded.

He often read the priest’s old books and got him to explain and enlarge upon them.