. Lucy and Their Majesties, a comedy in wax . we shall take with us to Marybud Lodge. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 41 f I have decided upon one, and I brought himup from below while you were asleep. He isjust behind you/3 Lucy turned, and started back when she sawthe Headsman from the tableau of the Execu-tion of Mary Queen of Scots. He wore hismask, and was leaning on his ax. Dont be frightened/ said Mme. Tussaud.! He will do only what I order him to do. Oh, dear! whispered Lucy, her heartbeating very fast. Will you order him to doanything? I dont know, replied Mme. We shall be g
. Lucy and Their Majesties, a comedy in wax . we shall take with us to Marybud Lodge. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 41 f I have decided upon one, and I brought himup from below while you were asleep. He isjust behind you/3 Lucy turned, and started back when she sawthe Headsman from the tableau of the Execu-tion of Mary Queen of Scots. He wore hismask, and was leaning on his ax. Dont be frightened/ said Mme. Tussaud.! He will do only what I order him to do. Oh, dear! whispered Lucy, her heartbeating very fast. Will you order him to doanything? I dont know, replied Mme. We shall be guided by events,and in any case he is a moral force. Only tolook at him makes one shiver. When he is inMarybud Lodge I will keep him in the back-ground as much as possible. He is one; nowfor the others. What do you think of KingHenry VIII? Have you any objection tohim? Oh, no, maam, said Lucy, I hear him speak? He will have something tosay for himself,I promise you, said Mme. Tussaud, with achuckle. Henry makes two. She checked. Lucy and the Headsman MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 43 them off on her fingers. Queen Elizabeth,of course. 1 If you please, maam, said Lucy, perceiv-ing that Mme. Tussaud awaited her approval. She is three. Whom shall we have for thefourth? We will take Houqua, the famousChinese tea-merchant, who objects to peopletaking sugar in their tea. Guy Fawkes shallbe the fifth, which is rather appropriate,and here Mme. Tussaud laughed,-- for youhave heard of gunpowder tea, have nt you ? Oh, yes, said Lucy. Then Richards I and III, continuedMme. Tussaud. That makes seven. MySleeping Beauty, Mme. Sainte Amaranthe,makes eight. She was one of the loveliest wo-men in France, and is an immense , Oliver Cromwell—what do you say tohim? If you think so, maam, said Lucy. He will tone down the royal personages;they are inclined to get too uppish unless theyhave some kind of a check upon them. Hemakes nine. Charles II makes ten, and allmy fingers are us
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