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Updated: June 15, 2025
'Ha! said the King and Glumboso, looking very flurried; but the former, collecting himself, said, 'Dear Prince Bulbo, I forgot to introduce to Your Royal Highness my dear nephew, His Royal Highness Prince Giglio! Know each other! Embrace each other! Giglio, give His Royal Highness your hand! and Giglio, giving his hand, squeezed poor Bulbo's until the tears ran out of his eyes.
'Won't you take that sum of money which Glumboso hid? says Giglio; 'two hundred and eighteen thousand millions, or thereabouts. It's a handsome sum. 'I will have that and you too! says Gruffanuff. 'Let us throw the crown jewels into the bargain, gasps out Giglio. 'I will wear them by my Giglio's side! says Gruffanuff.
It was quite a small party; only the King and Queen, the Princess, whom Bulbo took out, the two Princes, Countess Gruffanuff, Glumboso the Prime Minister, and Prince Bulbo's chamberlain. You may be sure they had a very good dinner let every boy or girl think of what he or she likes best, and fancy it on the table.*
Whilst he was lying sick in this way, there came to the Court of Paflagonia a famous painter, whose name was Tomaso Lorenzo, and who was Painter in Ordinary to the King of Crim Tartary, Paflagonia's neighbor. Tomaso Lorenzo painted all the Court, who were delighted with his works; for even Countess Gruffanuff looked young and Glumboso good-humored in his pictures.
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