Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 495
ered the grand vizier to cause that a sof velvet carpet should be laid from the front dof the grand palace, extending a half-mile dolthe street in the direction of the road by which Icavalcade was approaching ; adding that it was 6royal intention to walk this distance, for the pfrpose of giving his… … THE ROYAL PROCESSION. stepping along the carpet in the stateliest manfollowed by a vast and glittering retinue of court THE STORY OF A PROVERB. 469 id encompassed by multitudes of citizens who hadowded to see the pageant. As the king, bareheaded and barefooted (for at I ,is time everybody went…
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