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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Get out of the way, pray," says Gruffanuff haughtily. "I wonder why you are always poking your nose into other people's affairs?" "Are you determined to make this poor young man unhappy?" says Blackstick. "To marry him, yes! What business is it of yours? Pray, madam, don't say 'you' to a Queen," cries Gruffanuff. "You won't take the money he offered you?" "No."
She knew French, English, Italian, German, Spanish, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Cappadocian, Samothracian, Aegean, and Crim Tartar. In a word, she was a most accomplished young creature; and her governess and lady-in-waiting was the severe Countess Gruffanuff. Would you not fancy, from this picture, that Gruffanuff must have been a person of highest birth?
"You are jealous of him, and still love poor Angelica," cries Gruffanuff, putting her handkerchief to her eyes. "I did, but I love her no more!" Giglio cried. "I despise her! Were she heiress to twenty thousand thrones, I would despise her and scorn her. But why speak of thrones? I have lost mine. I am too weak to recover it I am alone, and have no friend."
'Mind she does not go with MY shoes on, which I lent her so kindly, says the Princess; and indeed the Princess's shoes were a great deal too big for Betsinda. 'Come with me, you filthy hussy! and taking up the Queen's poker, the cruel Gruffanuff drove Betsinda into her room.
Prince Bulbo's arrival had set all the court in a flutter: everybody was ordered to put his or her best clothes on: the footmen had their gala liveries; the Lord Chancellor his new wig; the Guards their last new tunics; and Countess Gruffanuff, you may be sure, was glad of an opportunity of decorating HER old person with her finest things.
They had not reached the duck-pond, when there came toddling up to them such a funny little girl! She had a great quantity of hair blowing about her chubby little cheeks, and looked as if she had not been washed or combed for ever so long. She wore a ragged bit of a cloak, and had only one shoe on. 'You little wretch, who let you in here? asked Mrs. Gruffanuff.
'Eleven o'clock! cries Giglio, as the great Cathedral bell of Blombodinga tolled that hour. 'Gentlemen and ladies, we must be starting. Archbishop, you must be at church, I think, before twelve? 'We must be at church before twelve, sighs out Gruffanuff in a languishing voice, hiding her old face behind her fan.
'Oh, dear Giglio, cries Gruffanuff, skipping up, 'I knew, I knew I could trust thee I knew that my Prince was the soul of honour. Jump into your carriages, ladies and gentlemen, and let us go to church at once; and as for dying, dear Giglio, no, no: thou wilt forget that insignificant little chambermaid of a Queen thou wilt live to be consoled by thy Barbara!
For the Fairy Blackstick coming to call upon the Prince and Princess, who were actually sitting at the open drawing-room window, Gruffanuff not only denied them, but made the most ODIOUS VULGAR SIGN as he was going to slam the door in the Fairy's face! 'Git away, hold Blackstick! said he. 'I tell you, Master and Missis ain't at home to you; and he was, as we have said, GOING to slam the door.
"You ARE going to stay at that door all day and all night, and for many a long year," the Fairy said, very majestically; and Gruffanuff, coming out of the door, straddling before it with his great calves, burst out laughing, and cried, "Ha, ha, ha! this IS a good un! Ha ah what's this? Let me down oh o h'm!" and then he was dumb!
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