Edward Hopper Painting

Edward Hopper Painting
Ruined? Prithee, how?"
"My back is my bread, O my gracious liege! if it go idle, I starve. An thou cease from study, mine office is gone, thou"lt need no whipping-boy. Do not turn me away!"
Tom was touched with this pathetic distress. He said, with a right royal burst of generosity:
Edward Hopper Painting
"Discomfort thyself no further, lad. Thine office shall be permanent in thee and thy line, forever." Then he struck the boy a light blow on the shoulder with the flat of his sword, exclaiming, "Rise, Humphrey Marlow, Hereditary Grand Whipping-Boy to the royal house of England! Banish sorrow-I will betake me to my books again, and study so ill that they must in justice treble thy wage, so mightily shall the business of thine office be augmented
Edward Hopper Painting