The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 232
each one ranto pay homage tothe new ruler. Thechamberlains ran outto talk it over, and the ladies-maids had a greatcoffee party. All about in all the halls and pas-sages cloth had been laid down so that no footstepcould be heard, and therefore it was quiet there,quite quiet. But the emperor was not… … 196 STORIES FROM HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. The poor emperor could scarcely breathe ; itwas just as if something lay upon his chest: heopened his eyes, and then he saw that it was Deathwho sat upon his chest, and had put on his goldencrown, and held in one hand the emperors sword,and in the other his…
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