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　　"How very odd! she is very pretty, but not so EXTRAORDINARILY handsome."

　　"Oh no, by no means!" says the Maid of Honour.

　　"But what care I, dear sir," says the Queen, who overheard them, "if YOU think I am good-looking enough?"

　　His Majesty's glance in reply to this affectionate speech was such that no painter could draw it. And the Fairy Blackstick said, "Bless you, my darling children! Now you are united and happy; and now you see what I said from the first, that a little misfortune has done you both good. YOU, Giglio, had you been bred in prosperity, would scarcely have learned to read or write——you would have been idle and extravagant, and could not have been a good King as now you will be. You, Rosalba, would have been so flattered, that your little head might have been turned like Angelica's, who thought herself too good for Giglio."

　　"As if anybody could be good enough for HIM," cried Rosalba.

　　"Oh, you, you darling!" says Giglio. And so she was; and he was just holding out his arms in order to give her a hug before the whole company, when a messenger came rushing in, and said, "My Lord, the enemy!"

　　"To arms!" cries Giglio.

　　"Oh, mercy!" says Rosalba, and fainted of course.

　　He snatched one kiss from her lips, and rushed FORTH TO THE FIELD of battle!

　　The Fairy had provided King Giglio with a suit of armour, which was not only embroidered all over with jewels, and blinding to your eyes to look at, but was water-proof, gun-proof, and sword-proof; so that in the midst of the very hottest battles His Majesty rode about as calmly as if he had been a British Grenadier at Alma. Were I engaged in fighting for my country, _I_ should like such a suit of armour as Prince Giglio wore; but, you know, he was a Prince of a fairy tale, and they always have these wonderful things.

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