Which excerpt best reveals Charles Dickens' contempt for royalty?
A. ". . . thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms"
B. "Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People from British subjects in America"
C. ". . . that magnificent potentate, the Mayor of London was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman"
D. "There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face [in] England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face [in] France."