HAMLET. 61

“What brought you here?” asked Hamlet, when he had greeted his
friend kindly.

“T came, my lord, to see your father’s funeral.”

“T think it was to see my mother’s wedding,” said Hamlet, bitterly.
“My father! We shall not look upon his like again.”

“My lord,” answered Horatio, “1 think I saw him yesternight.”

Then, while Hamlet listened in surprise, Horatio told how he, with

 

two gentlemen of the guard, had seen ‘the King’s ghost on the battlements.
Hamlet went that ene and true enough, at nidniaht the ghost of the
King, in the armour he had been wont to wear, appeared on the battle-
ments in the chill moonlight. Hamlet was a brave youth. Instead of
running away from the ghost he spoke to it—and when it beckoned him