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Originally Posted by SpiritRunner
The king would have, in my humble opinion, been cutting his own nose off to spite his face if he had behaved nastily and ungratefully toward the speech guy ....

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See, I would not equate a good impaling with ungrateful. Plus they get paid so I do not worry about gratitude.
I sat there thinking it was only because the king put the duty to country before himself or speech guy totally impaled.