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"Found that out already, have you? Well, that's a good beginnin'." It was the Purple Emperor, with his high, tight, plate-glass cab and green velvet cushion, waiting to be cleaned for his next day's fly. "Let me make you two gen'lemen acquainted," said Poney. "This is our Purple Emperor, kid, whom you were admirin' and, I may say, envyin' last night.
I accompanied the apothecary to her bedside before two o'clock, for I had made my poney almost fly thither and back. We found my poor father, who had been anxiously attending the progress of her disorder, in great distress.
"Now I'll show you something worth," said Poney. "When the Purple Emperor ain't on time, it's about time to amend the Constitution. The first stroke of twelve is " "Boom!" went the clock in the big yard-tower, and far away.007 heard a full, vibrating "Yah! Yah! Yah!"
Go to the shops, take them vine-leaves out o' your hair, an' git 'em to play the hose on you." "Leave him alone, Poney," said 007 severely, as he was swung on the turn-table, "or I'll " "'Didn't know the old granger was any special friend o' yours, kid. He wasn't over-civil to you last time I saw him." "I know it; but I've seen a wreck since then, and it has about scared the paint off me.
In every village was displayed the white cockade, and the fleur de lis. In one, the villagers were employed at the moment of his passing in hanging him in effigy; at another they compelled him to call out Vive le Roi, and he obeyed them, while his attendants refused. For a part of the way he was forced to mount a little poney in the dress of an Austrian officer.
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