Mark Twain Quote

"My father!" cried Tom, off his guard for the moment. "I trow he cannot speak his own so that any but the swine that kennel in the styes may tell his meaning; and as for learning of any sort soever—"
He looked up and encountered a solemn warning in my Lord St. John's eyes.
He stopped, blushed, then continued low and sadly: "Ah, my malady persecuteth me again, and my mind wandereth. I meant the King's grace no irreverence."


Ch. 6: 'Tom receives instructions.' - The Prince and the Pauper (1881)


My father! cried Tom, off his guard for the moment. I trow he cannot speak his own so that any but the swine that kennel in the styes may tell his...

My father! cried Tom, off his guard for the moment. I trow he cannot speak his own so that any but the swine that kennel in the styes may tell his...

My father! cried Tom, off his guard for the moment. I trow he cannot speak his own so that any but the swine that kennel in the styes may tell his...

My father! cried Tom, off his guard for the moment. I trow he cannot speak his own so that any but the swine that kennel in the styes may tell his...