“I can read it, too.”
“It’s about ‘illustrious blood’——”
“Yes, and ‘our country,’ and ‘dedicated to honor and virtue.’”
“And ‘his illustrious blood’——”
“No, there it stands—‘torn from the barbarians’——”
“That comes later. ‘Illustrious blood’——”
“Of Holland’s hero——”
“Welcome, hero!”
“I wonder if the king looks at the candles. Do you suppose he reads such verses and copies them?”
“Oh, he has his ministers for that.”