The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo; a fireside pantomime for great and small children . think how they quarreled ! The poor queenwas very tired of her honors before she had them a month, and I daresay sighed sometimes even to be a ladys maid again. But we mustall do our duty in our respective stations, so the queen resigned her-self to perform hers. We have said how it happened that none of the usurpers troopscame out to oppose this Army of Fidelity: it pottered along as nimblyas the gout of the principal commanders allowed ; it consisted of twiceas many o
The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo; a fireside pantomime for great and small children . think how they quarreled ! The poor queenwas very tired of her honors before she had them a month, and I daresay sighed sometimes even to be a ladys maid again. But we mustall do our duty in our respective stations, so the queen resigned her-self to perform hers. We have said how it happened that none of the usurpers troopscame out to oppose this Army of Fidelity: it pottered along as nimblyas the gout of the principal commanders allowed ; it consisted of twiceas many officers as soldiers, and at length passed near the estates ofone of the most powerful noblemen of the country, who had not de-clared for the queen, but of whom her party had hopes, as he was al-ways quarreling with King Padella. When they came close to his park gates, this nobleman sent to say 90 HOW COUNT IIOGGINARMO WOod HER. he would wait upon her majesty. He was a most powerful warrior,and his name was Count Hogofinarrno, whose helmet it took two strongnegroes to carry. He knelt down before her and said. Madame and. liege lady! it becomes the great nobles of the Crimean realm to shewevery outward sign of respect to the wearer of the crown, whoever SURELY NOTHING COULD BE RUDER. 91 that may be. We testify to our own nobility in acknowledging yoursTlie bold Hogginarmo bends the knee to the first of the aristocracy ofhis country. Rosalba said, The bold Count of Hogginarmo was uncommonlykind. But she felt afraid of him, even while he was kneeling, andhis eyes scowled at her from between his whiskers, wliich grew upto them. The first count of the empire, madam, he went on, salutes thesovereign ! The prince addresses himself to the not more noble lady !Madam, my hand is free, and I ofier it, and my heart and my sword,to your service ! My three wives lie buried in my ancestral third perished but a year since ; and this heart pines for a con-sort ! Deign to be mine, and
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