Because he had already started asking for others' forgiveness, even though he didn't actually owe Arthur an apology in that matter.
Immediately, the King began to reminisce about his childhood, saying that when he was young one could still catch salmon swimming upstream in the Thames, back when it had a dark green hue rather than the murky black it's become from pollution, resembling Manchester's Ewell River riddled with corpses.
King William IV habitually rubbed the back of his index finger on his pockmarked nose, then stared at the chaotic scene on the street where street performers were making noise, a "sandwich man" wore soap advertisements, several boys sold matches, vendors hawked pies, and an Indian beggar with a nose disfigured by syphilis beat a drum.
The horse hooves clattered on the cobblestones and passed piles of dung, splashing mud onto the hems of ladies' skirts, dirtying the street.
