“Why—the—news.”
“What news?”
“Why—that the king is much better, and—”
“Yes, Sir Lucas said so, but I have seen nobody since.”
“No? And have you heard nothing more?”
“Nothing at all; I cannot guess what you mean.”
“What, then, have not you heard—how much the king has talked? And—and have not you heard the charge.”
“No; I have heard not a word of any charge.”
“Why, then, I’ll tell you.”
A long preamble, uttered very rapidly, of “how much the king had been talking,” seemed less necessary to introduce his intelligence than to give him time to arrange it; and I was so much struck with this, that I could not even listen to him, from impatience to have him proceed.