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The Young King

It was the night before the coronation, and the young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His courtiers left him, bowing their heads to the ground. They went to the Great Hall of the Palace to receive a few last lessons from the Professor of Etiquette. Some of them had still quite natural manners, which was a very serious offence for a courtier. The boy – for he was only sixteen years of age – was not sorry that they had left him, and threw himself back with a deep sigh of relief on the soft couch. He lay there like some young animal of the forest newly caught by the hunters.

And, indeed, it was the hunters who had found him almost by chance. Barefoot and pipe in hand he was following the flock of the poor goatherd who had brought him up, and whose son he always thought himself to be. He was the child of the old King’s daughter by a secret marriage with someone much lower in rank. Some people said he was a stranger who made the young Princess love him by the wonderful magic of his lute playing. Others spoke of an artist from Rimini to whom the Princess had shown much honour, and who disappeared suddenly from the city. When the Prince was a week old, he was stolen from his mother’s side, as he slept. The child was given to a common peasant and his wife. They lived far from the town. The Princess died. It was said that she was lowered into a grave beyond the city with another body of a marvelous young man. He was tied up and badly wounded.

At least, such was the story that men whispered to each other. It was certain that lying on his deathbed the old King, realized his great sin and had sent for the boy, and in the presence of the Council, had acknowledged him as his heir. (by O. Wilde)



Вопросы

  1. What night was it?

  2. How old was the Young King?

  3. Who had found the Young King when he was a little boy?

  4. When the Prince was a week old, he was______________________

  5. What did the old King realize on his deathbed?

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