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"How about my boots, I wonder," said the prince; for his seven-league boots were stout riding-boots, not good to dance in, whereas now he was in elegant shoes of silk and gold. He threw down the wishing cap, put on the other the cap of darkness and made three strides in the direction of Gluckstein.
Off they rode to Falkenstein; and when the king saw them come galloping in, I can tell you he had no more notion of hanging Prigio. The Very Last. The princes returned to Gluckstein on the carpet, and went to the best inn, where they dined together and slept.
Some of the quicker-minded guests made a pretence of little conversational flurries: "That second movement oh, exquisitely rendered!... No one has ever read Chopin so divinely.... How his family must idolize him!... They say.... That exquisite concerto!... Hasn't he the most stunning hair.... Those staccato passages left me actually limp I'm starting Myrtle in Tuesday to take of Professor Gluckstein.
But still I felt all right, because him and Nettie was nudging each other intimately again when Professor Gluckstein started in on the accompaniment I bet Wilbur thinks the prof is awful old-fashioned, playing with his fingers that way; I know they don't speak on the street.
"'No, I says, 'not to sell. I wish I 'ad. But if I 'ad, I'm afraid I couldn't let you have it. This gent, 'e's been offerin' me "Mr. Gluckstein 'e tried to stop me, but it was too late. "'What's 'e been offerin' you? says a great big chap with a 'atchet; 'what's 'e been offerin you? I 'ad to tell.
The first two were nicknamed by NAALO's petty officers as Salmon and Gluckstein after a local store in Plymouth. Germany wanted to get them back to the relative safety of a German port and Britain was equally determined that they should stay where they were, where they could be attacked.
He went to his own room, took a portmanteau in his hand, sat down on the carpet, and said: "I wish I were in Gluckstein." In a moment there he found himself; for this was that famous carpet which Prince Hussein bought long ago, in the market at Bisnagar, and which the fairies had brought, with the other presents, to the christening of Prince Prigio.
Whereas, Our eldest son, Prince Prigio, hath of late been guilty of several high crimes and misdemeanours. First: By abandoning the post of danger against the Firedrake, whereby our beloved sons, Prince Alphonso and Prince Enrico, have perished, and been overdone by that monster. Secondly: By attending an unseemly revel in the town of Gluckstein, where he brawled in the streets.
And I smoothed Professor Gluckstein down till he agreed to furnish the music for us and let the war take care of itself. The Prof's a good old scout when he ain't got his war bonnet on. He was darned near crying into his meerschaum pipe with a carved fat lady on it when I got through telling him about the poor soldiers in the wet and cold without a thing to smoke.
Now, just as they were forming a procession to march into church, who should appear but the queen! Her majesty had been travelling by post all the time, and, luckily, had heard of none of the doings since Prigio, Benson, and the king left Gluckstein. I say luckily because if she had heard of them, she would not have believed a word of them. "Naughty boys! Where have you been hiding?
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