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Fifth, he is now appearing before Queen Katharine the First of Flixworth
Manor."

Both his hearers laughed heartily and happily; then he added: "Now I am
going to trot out my hero--nay, that word `trot' won't do; I've had too
much of both trotting and galloping lately. But what I mean is, I want
to show you what it is that I specially admire in my hero, and how this
exactly fits in with my dear hero-brother Amos. Ah! I see he wants to
stop me, but, dear Aunt Kate, you must use your royal authority and back
me up; and when I have done, you can put in what notes and comments and
addenda and corrigenda you like, and tell me if I have not just hit the
right nail on the head.

"Very well; now I see you are all attention. Martin Luther--wasn't he a
grand fellow? Just look at him as he is travelling up to the Diet of
Worms. As soon as the summons came to him, his mind was made up; he did
not delay for a moment. People crowded about him and talked of
_danger_, but Luther talked about _duty_. He set out in a waggon, with
an imperial herald before him. His journey was like a triumphal
procession. In every town through which he passed, young and old came
out of their doors to wonder at him, and bless him, and tell him to be
of good courage. At last he has got to Oppenheim, not far from Worms,
and his friends do their very best to frighten him and keep him back;
but he tells them that if he should have to encounter at Worms as many
devils as there were tiles on the houses of that city, he would not be
kept from his purpose. Ah! that was a grand answer. And then, when he
got to his lodgings, what a sight it must have been! They were crowded
inside and out with all classes and all kinds of persons,--soldiers,
clergy, knights, peasants, nobles by the score, citizens by the
thousand. And then came the grand day of all, the day after his
arrival. He was sent for into the council-hall. What a sight that must
have been for the poor monk! There was the young emperor himself,
Charles the Fifth, in all his pomp and splendour, and two hundred of his
princes and nobles. Why, it would have taken the breath out of a dozen
such fellows as I am to have to stand up and speak up for what I knew to
be right before such a company. But Luther did speak up; and there was
no swagger about him either. They asked him to recant, and he begged
time to consider of it. They met again next day, and then he refused to
recant, with grea