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English, 28.04.2021 01:10, F00Dislife

Select the correct text in the passage. Which sentence in this excerpt shows that Tom Canty is not satisfied with being a mock (pretend) prince?

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (excerpt)

By-and-by Tom's reading and dreaming about princely life wrought such a strong effect upon him that he began to act the prince, unconsciously. His speech and manners became curiously ceremonious and courtly, to the vast admiration and amusement of his intimates.
[But Tom's influence among these young people began to grow now, day by day; and in time he came to be looked up to, by them, with a sort of wondering awe, as a superior being.]
He seemed to know so much! and he could do and say such marvelous things! and withal, he was so deep and wise! Tom's remarks, and Tom's performances, were reported by the boys to their elders; and these, also, presently began to discuss Tom Canty, and to regard him as a most gifted and extraordinary creature. Full-grown people brought their perplexities to Tom for solution, and were often astonished at the wit and wisdom of his decisions,
[In fact he was become a hero to all who knew him except his own family---these, only, saw nothing in him.]

Privately, after a while, Tom organized a royal court! He was the prince; his special comrades were guards, chamberlains, equerries, lords, and ladies in waiting, and the royal family. Daily the mock prince was received with elaborate ceremonials borrowed by Tom from his romantic readings; daily the great affairs of the mimic kingdom were discussed in the royal council, and daily his mimic highness issued decrees to his imaginary armies, navies, and vice royalties.

After which, he would go forth in his rage and beg a few farthings, eat his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeur's in his dreams.

[And still his desire to look just once upon a real prince, in the flesh, grew upon him, day by day, and week by week, until at last it absorbed all other desires, and become the one passion of his life.]

One January day, on his usual begging tour, he tramped despondently up and down the region round about Mincing Lane and Little East Cheap, hour after hour, bare-footed and cold, looking in at cook-shop windows and longing for the dreadful pork-pies and other deadly inventions displayed there---for to him these were dainties fit for the angels; that is, judging by the smell, they were---for it had never been is good luck to own and eat one. There was a cold drizzle of rain; the atmosphere was murky; it was melancholy day. At night Tom reached home so wet and tired and hungry that it was not possible for his grandfather and grandmother to observer his forlorn condition and not be moved---after their fashion; wherefore they gave him a brisk-cuffing at once and sent him to bed.
[For a long time his pain and hunger, and the swearing and fighting going on in the building, kept him awake; but at last his thoughts drifted away to far, romantic lands, and he fell asleep in the company of jeweled and gilded prince-lings who live in vast palaces, and had servants salaaming before them or flying to execute their orders. And then, as usual, he dreamed that he was a prince-ling himself.]

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