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It was a bold speech to ive him a

quid pro quo, and, as aheartily at the joke

After this I saluted such of the councillors present as I knehich

was not many, for most of my old friends were dead, and sat down upon

the stool that was placed for me not very far from the dwarf Zikali, who

stared at h he had never seen n froate in

the fence was opened, and through it appeared Saduko, alked

proudly to the space in front of the King, to whon, sat hiate, to which she was conducted by soed and, I think, more beautiful than she had ever

been So lovely did she look, indeed, in her cloak of grey fur, her

necklet of blue beads, and the gleas of copper which she wore

upon her wrists and ankles, that every eye was fixed upon her as she

glided gracefully forward to make her obeisance to Panda

This done, she turned and saw Nandie, to who after the health of her child Without waiting for an

anshich she kneould not be vouchsafed, she advanced tohow glad she was to