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Updated: June 7, 2025
Captain Hedzoff rode away when King Padella uttered this cruel command, having done his duty in delivering the message with which his royal master had entrusted him. Of course he was very sorry for Rosalba, but what could he do? So he returned to King Giglio's camp, and found the young monarch in a disturbed state of mind, smoking cigars in the royal tent.
Dancing, feasting, fun, illuminations, and jollifications of all sorts ensued. The people through whose villages they passed were ordered to illuminate their cottages at night, and scatter flowers on the roads during the day. Hedzoff was made a Duke and a Field-Marshal.
Bulbo was embracing everybody; the Lord Chancellor was flinging up his wig and shouting like a madman; Hedzoff had got the Archbishop round the waist, and they were dancing a jig for joy; and as for Giglio, I leave you to imagine what HE was doing, and if he kissed Rosalba once, twice twenty thousand times, I'm sure I don't think he was wrong.
'So am I, said Bulbo; 'and YOU KNOW WHY. Captain Hedzoff here came up. 'Sire, it is half-past eight: shall we proceed with the execution? 'Execution! what for? asked Bulbo. 'An officer only knows his orders, replied Captain Hedzoff, showing his warrant, on which His Majesty King Giglio smilingly said, 'Prince Bulbo was reprieved this time, and most graciously invited him to breakfast.
'Hedzoff, he said, taking a death-warrant out of his dressing-gown pocket, 'Hedzoff, good Hedzoff, seize upon the Prince. Thou'lt find him in his chamber two pair up. But now he dared, with sacrilegious hand, to strike the sacred night-cap of a king Hedzoff, and floor me with a warming-pan! Away, no more demur, the villain dies!
The people through whose villages they passed were ordered to illuminate their cottages at night, and scatter flowers on the roads during the day. Hedzoff was made a Duke and a Field Marshal. Smith and Jones were promoted to be Earls; the Crim Tartar Order of the Pumpkin and the Paflagonian decoration of the Cucumber were freely distributed by their Majesties to the army.
I challenge him to meet me, with fists or with pistols, with battle-axe or sword, with blunderbuss or singlestick, alone or at the head of his army, on foot or on horseback; and will prove my words upon his wicked ugly body! 'God save the King! said Captain Hedzoff, executing a demivolte, two semilunes, and three caracols.
With such a weapon at command, I wonder, for my part, he thought of ordering his army out; but forth they all came, in magnificent new uniforms, Hedzoff and the Prince's two college friends each commanding a division, and his Majesty prancing in person at the head of them all.
"And what says my good brother of Paflagonia, my dear son's father-in-law, to this rubbish?" asked the King. "The King's uncle hath been deprived of the crown he unjustly wore," said Hedzoff gravely. "He and his ex-minister, Glumboso, are now in prison waiting the sentence of my royal master. After the battle of Bombardaro " "Of what?" asked the surprised Padella.
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