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Hendon forced back a smile, and bent down and whispered in the King's ear --
"Softly, softly, my prince, wag thy tongue warily -- nay, suffer it not to wag at all. Trust in me -- all shall go well in the end. " Then he added to himself: "SIR Miles! Bless me, I had totally forgot I was a knight! Lord, how marvellous a thing it is, the grip his memory doth take upon his quaint and crazy fancies! . An empty and foolish title is mine, and yet it is something to have deserved it; for I think it is more honour to be held worthy to be a spectre-knight in his Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows, than to be held base enough to be an earl in some of the REAL kingdoms of this world."