War and Peace · Aylmer Maude translation

Note * — “Long live the king.”
Chapter IV

“Long live the king.”

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…the King of Naples that when, on the eve of his departure from that city, while walking through the streets with his wife, some Italians called out to him: “Viva il re!” * he turned to his wife with a pensive smile and said: “Poor fellows, they don’t know that I am leaving them tomorrow!”

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