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Updated: June 29, 2025
It was as though the sovereign of England, on coronation-day, should refuse to be crowned, and intimate to the archbishop, in his full canonicals, a confirmed preference for the republican form of Government. It was a contingency that law and custom in Boupari had neither, in their wisdom, foreseen nor provided for. The King of Water whispered low in the new god's ear.
He wore also the decorations of several orders, and a crown not the large one, which is worn but once in a lifetime, and that on the coronation-day but the one for regular use, which is of fine gold, conical in shape and the rim completely surrounded by a circlet of magnificent diamonds.
'And what becomes of the homage? 'Curse the homage! I believe Rose is to pull off the queen's slipper on her coronation-day, or some such trash. If she was to be also Viscountess Bradwardine in her own right after her father's demise, so much the better; I could have no objection.
Above all, there was fixed in her memory the strange aspect the town wore on one day a Coronation-day, the grandest gala of her childhood. One king had died and been buried. Olive saw the black-hung pulpit and heard the funeral sermon, awfully thundered forth at night Another king had been proclaimed, and Olive had gloried in the sight of the bonfires and the roasted sheep.
'And what becomes of the homage? 'Curse the homage! I believe Rose is to pull off the queen's slipper on her coronation-day, or some such trash. If she was to be also Viscountess Bradwardine in her own right after her father's demise, so much the better; I could have no objection.
So, almost night, I carried Mrs. Pierce home, and then Knepp and I to the Temple again, and took boat, it being darkish, and to Fox Hall, it being now night, and a bonfire burning at Lambeth for the King's coronation-day.
'And what becomes of the homage? 'Curse the homage! I believe Rose is to pull off the queen's slipper on her coronation-day, or some such trash. If she was to be also Viscountess Bradwardine in her own right after her father's demise, so much the better; I could have no objection.
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