It was wonderful that he should come to such a fate as this;--that he, the boy out of the gutter, should entertain at his own house, in London, a Chinese Emperor and English and German Royalty,--and that he should do so almost with a rope round his neck. 
It was wonderful that he, the boy out of the gutter, should entertain at his own house a Chinese Emperor and English and German Royalty - and that he should do so almost with a rope round his neck. 