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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 200

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lk, costly beyond com- MASTER SKYLARK. 719 pare. The royal presence-chamber shone withtapestries of gold, of silver, and of oriental silks,of as many shifting colors as the birds of para-dise, and wrought in exquisite design. Thethrone was set with diamonds, with rubies, gar-nets, and sapphires,… … THEY were met by the yeomen of the guard, and were marched up to the POSTERN TWO AND TWO. betha! There was no door without a gor-geous usher there, no room without a page, nocorridor without a guard, no post without aman of noble birth to fill it. On the walls of the great gallery were mas-terly…

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