Английский язык с Марком Твеном. Принц и нищий / Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper

'Tush, he must be the prince! Will any he in all the land maintain there can be two, not of one blood and birth, so marvelously twinned? And even were it so, 'twere yet a stranger miracle that chance should cast the one into the other's place. Nay, 'tis folly, folly, folly!'

Presently he said:

'Now were he impostor and called himself prince, look you that would be natural; that would be reasonable. But lived ever an impostor yet, who, being called prince by the king, prince by the court, prince by all, denied his dignity and pleaded against his exaltation? No! By the soul of St. Swithin, no! This is the true prince, gone mad!'

CHAPTER VII (Глава седьмая)

Tom's First Royal Dinner (Первый королевский ужин Тома)