. Tales of fantasy . 236 Tales of Fantasy. CHAPTER II. How King Valoroso Got the Crown, and Prince Giglio Went Without. |AFLAGONIA, ten or twentythousand years ago, appears tohave been one of those kingdomswhere the laws of succession werenot settled; for when King Saviodied, leaving his brother regent ofthe kingdom, and guardian of Saviosorphan infant, this unfaithful regenttook no sort of regard of the latemonarchs will; had himself proclaimed sovereign ofPaflagonia under the title of King Valoroso XXIV., hada most splendid coronation, and ordered all the noblesof the kingdom to pay him homa
. Tales of fantasy . 236 Tales of Fantasy. CHAPTER II. How King Valoroso Got the Crown, and Prince Giglio Went Without. |AFLAGONIA, ten or twentythousand years ago, appears tohave been one of those kingdomswhere the laws of succession werenot settled; for when King Saviodied, leaving his brother regent ofthe kingdom, and guardian of Saviosorphan infant, this unfaithful regenttook no sort of regard of the latemonarchs will; had himself proclaimed sovereign ofPaflagonia under the title of King Valoroso XXIV., hada most splendid coronation, and ordered all the noblesof the kingdom to pay him homage. So long as Valo-roso gave them plenty of balls at Court, plenty of money,and lucrative places, the Paflagonian nobility did notcare who was king; and as for the people, in thoseearly times, they were equally indifferent. The PrinceGiglio, by reason of his tender age at his royal fathersdeath, did not feel the loss of his crown and long as he had plenty of toys and sweetmeats, aholiday five times a week, and a horse and gun t
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