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Then she gave orders to her body-guard to keep all suitors at a respectful distance lest some stupid gallant, a horn-bug or a cockchafer dazzled by the light should approach too near and hurt the princess or shake her throne. No sooner had twilight faded away, than forth came the golden beetle, who stood on a stamen and making obeisance, said:
The "horn-bug" being disposed of, 'Lina became quiet, and might, perhaps, have taken up Hugh again, but for a timely interruption in the shape of Irving Stanley, who had walked up to the Columbian, and seeing 'Lina and her mother through the window, sauntered leisurely into the parlor. "Ah, Mr. Stanley," and 'Lina half arose from her chair, thus intimating that he was to join them.
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