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royally beautiful she looked indeed, and a entleman near her, seated very much at his ease, on the lower throne

The contrast was not of dress--for his outward race and dignity, he was a very

mean specimen of the lords of creation, indeed In stature, he scarcely

reached to the queen's royal shoulder, butthe breadth of two common men; his head was in

proportion to his width, and was decorated with a wig of long, flowing,

flaxen hair, that scarcely harmonized with a profusion of the article

whiskers, in hue ht, and piercing, and glared on the assembled company as they had

done half an hour before on Sir Norsley, in the bar-room of the

Golden Crown; for the royal little man was no other than Caliban, the

dwarf Behind the thrones the flock of floral angels grouped themselves;

archbishop, prime minister, and embassadors, took their stand within the

lines of the soldiery, and the music softly and ined

"My lord Duke," began the queen, in the very voice he had heard at the

plague-pit, as she turned to the stylish individual next the archbishop,

"come forward and read us the roll of "