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The tune he was playing now, simple and dreamy like a lullaby, and strangely at variance with the surroundings, whisked me off in a twinkling, far from the actual ten, fifteen years backwards to my student life in Paris, and set me to thinking, as I had not thought for many a long day, of my hero, friend, and comrade, Edmund Pair; for it was a tune of Pair's composition, a melody he had written to a nursery rhyme, and used to sing a good deal, half in fun, half in earnest, to his lady-love, Godelinette: 'Lavender's blue, diddle-diddle, Lavender's green; When I am king, diddle-diddle, You shall be queen.
Now when the woman addressed this funny kind of talk to him, he answered her in her own way, as he imagined, readily enough: "Hey diddle-diddle, the cat's in the fiddle, fe fo fi fum, chumpty-chumpty-chum, with bings on her ringers, and tells on her boes." They all listened with grave attention, as if he had said something very important. Then the woman continued: "Huanatopa ana ana quiltahou."
"When I am knight, you shall be my lady." "When you are king, diddle-diddle, I shall be queen," Brilliana laughed at him, making a reverence. He joined Halfman at the door and Master Peter approached Brilliana. "When I wear my new title, I will lay it at your feet," he promised, solemnly. "Can you not keep it in your own hands?" Brilliana questioned.
Dan's got a good place, I can tell you travelling tutor to the hopeful young lord that is to be Devereux's cousin. By all the Graces, Ma'am, 'tis the blind leading the blind. I don't know which of the two is craziest. Hey, diddle-diddle by Jupiter, such a pair the dish ran away with the spoon; but Dan's a good creature, and we'll we'll miss him.
"Indeed I have," said the nice lady frog who kept the store. "I have all kinds of bonnets," and then she sang a little song that went something like this, to the tune "High diddle-diddle:" "I've bonnets of ribbon, and bonnets of paper, I've bonnets both red, white and blue. Some bonnets of leather, for cold stormy weather, And bonnets of feathers and glue.
"When I am king, diddle-diddle, You shall be queen!" So they went to London to seek their fortune, and that was the last I ever saw of them, nearly the last I heard.
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