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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 484

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— to be queen.Oh, it is hard, hard! After sixty years —er — er — sixteen years — of bitter striving,to have it all end thus! Why not try it now?No one is near—I will. (Ascends and seatsherself on throne.) Behold your queen!With what royal dignity I grace this seat.Subjects kneel in the dust before… … EXECUTIONER, LORD HIGH-KEEPER-OF-THE-CANDY-BOX, LORD NKER, AND JE^ ILK. Enter Polly, still disguised. Polly {excitedly). A word ! A word ! Blowsabella. Who are you, little girl ? (Turns.)Oh, a gentleman ! What do you wish ? Polly. To see the most important person in thekingdom. Blowsabella. Behold…

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