love for the children o f your mother is an impossibility sir i am not to blame for my mother s disposition true � very true you are not to blame but you ist and that you do exist is a fact of national importance will you not sit down at your command sir and the prince seated himself opposite his father who having studied his cigar sufficiently replaced it between his lips and went on smoking for a few minutes before he spoke again then he resumed � power your existence i repeat is ti of n to you falls the throne when i ha done with it and life has done with � ie th ef ore yo conduct � your mode of life � your in � concern not me so much as the you say th you cannot trust as a friend because i you is not this a somewhat childish remark your part we live in a very practical age � love is n a necessary tie between human beings as things go � the bond of ip rests on the has of cash accounts i am perfectly aware of that said the prince his fine dark eyes full on his father s face � and ye after all love is such a vital necessity that i l t look at you in order to realize the failure and t� e trying to do without it the king gave him a glance of si so � you have begun to notice what i have know for years he said lightly � clever young man fine fairy finger is pointing out to you my while supplying your own do you learn to th value of love while contemplating the groves and of the islands do you poetry there � or write it or talk it prince coloured � then grew very pale when i my time sir he said � � surely will then be needful to me on the manner i which i spend it � but not till then fairly put answered the king � but i have a idea � it may be a mistaken idea � still i have it � tha you are your time and this is th cause of our present little discussion if i knew that yo occupied yourself with the pleasures your ag and rank i should be more at ease what do you consider to be the pleasures m age and rank asked the prince with a touch of satire making a fool of myself the king smiled well � it would be better to make a fool of generally than particularly folly is not so spread like jam ov a v hole of bread but it ma cause a life long if swallowed in one secret of sweetness if i loved you i the prince moved uneasily m you think i am you � and you resent it but my dear boy let me again remind you that you are in a manner to the nation for your actions and especially to that particular section of the nation called society society is the least and worst part of the whole community � but it has to be considered by such servants of the public as ourselves you know what james the first of england wrote concerning the on the conduct of a prince and future king a king is set as one on a stage whose smallest actions and gestures all the people do behold and however just in the discharge of his office yet if his ir be light or in indifferent actions the p op who see but the outward part conceive of the king s inward intention which although time the of all truth will by the evidence of the effect yet and will in the meantime breed contempt the mother of rebellion and disorder poor james of the eyes and large hysterical heart as describes him do you not agree with his of a royal position i am not aware sir that my behaviour can as yet be called light or replied the prince coldly with a touch of i do not call it so � said the king � to the best of my knowledge your conduct has always l een most but with all your excessive decorum you are mysterious that is bad society will not endure being kept in the dark or outside the door of things like a bad child it wants to be in the room and know everything and everybody and this reminds me of another point on which the good english james offers sound advice remember to be and sensible in your language for besides it is the tongue s office to be the messenger of the mind it may be thought a point of of spirit in a king to speak much ore as if he stood in awe of any in uttering thoughts that is precisely j our mood at the moment � you land in awe � of me r of else � in uttering your thoughts power pardon me sir � i do not stand in awe of you or anyone said the prince � i simply d choose to utter my thoughts just now the king looked at him in surprise and with a of admiration the defiant air he had unconsciously a became him � his handsome face was pale an liis dark eyes coldly brilliant like those of his with the steel light of an resolve you do not choose said the king after a pause you decline to give any explanation of your long of absence � your constant visits to the islands ar your neglect of those social duties which should keep at court i decline to do so for the present replied the your man i can see no harm in my preference f � rather than noise � for scenes of nature � 