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A member of the Ruffler’s band of thieves and friend of John Canty. Like John, Hugo hates Edward Tudor (who everyone thinks is John’s son Tom Canty because they look identical and because Edward and Tom traded clothes the day before) even though the rest of the group likes him. Hugo resents the fact that Edward won’t lie, steal, or cheat with the rest of the group. Still, the Ruffler puts Hugo in charge of taking care of Edward because he doesn’t like how John treats the boy. Hugo decides to get rid of Edward by framing him for a theft. One day when they go out together, Hugo tells Edward to stand still in an alley and wait. Edward intends to escape if Hugo walks far enough away, but before he gets the chance to run, Hugo grabs a suckling pig out of a woman’s basket, throws it to Edward, and runs away. Edward throws the pig down before anyone comes over, but the woman Hugo stole it from sees Edward and blames him for it. Edward is arrested and brought before the judge, but his protector, Miles Hendon, blackmails a sheriff to let Edward escape before he’s put in jail.
Hugo Quotes in The Prince and the Pauper
The The Prince and the Pauper quotes below are all either spoken by Hugo or refer to Hugo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 20 Quotes
“His father wrought us evil, he destroyed us—and is gone down into the eternal fires! Yes, down into the eternal fires! He escaped us—but it was God’s will, yes it was God’s will, we must not repine. But he hath not escaped the fires! no, he hath not escaped the fires, the consuming, unpitying remorseless fires—and they are everlasting!”
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“It was his father that did it all. I am but an archangel—but for him, I should be Pope!”
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Chapter 23 Quotes
“Reflect, sire—your laws are the wholesome breath of your own royalty; shall their source resist them, yet require the branches to respect them? Apparently one of these laws has been broken; when the king is on his throne again, can it ever grieve him to remember that when he was seemingly a private person he loyally sunk the king in the citizen and submitted to its authority?”
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Hugo Character Timeline in The Prince and the Pauper
The timeline below shows where the character Hugo appears in The Prince and the Pauper. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 17: Foo-Foo the First
...his mother is dead and his sisters are in the palace. This makes the youth, Hugo, laugh, but John takes it as more evidence of his son’s madness and he tells...
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Chapter 18: The Prince, a Prisoner
The next morning, the Ruffler puts Hugo in charge of Edward and orders John to stay away from the boy. After trudging...
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Chapter 19: The Prince with the Peasants
...drown some kittens, Edward decides he’ll have to draw a line. Just then, Edward notices Hugo and John walking up, so he leaves the kittens by an outhouse and sneaks away.
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Chapter 21: Hendon to the Rescue
...the hut. He closes his eyes, but when he opens them, he sees John and Hugo there. They untie Edward and carry him out.
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Chapter 22: A Victim of Treachery
John and Hugo bring Edward back to the gang of thieves from which Edward had just escaped. While...
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Hugo plans to get revenge on Edward. He wants to humiliate Edward by smearing a poultice...
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