The Rose and the Ring; Or, the History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ... heard me out Be hanged to her! There she is off again! Angelica! Angelica!" When his majesty called in his loud voice, she knew she must obey, and came back. "My dear, when you go out of a room, how often have I told you, shut the door! That's a darling. That's all." At last the keys, and the desk, and the spectacles were got, and the king mended his pen, and signed his name to a reprieve, and Angelica ran with it as swift as the wind. "You'd better stay, my love, and finish the muffins. There's no use going. Be sure it's too late. Hand me over that raspberry jam, please," said the monarch. "Bong! Bawong! There goes the half hour. I knew it was." Angelica ran, and ran, and ran, and ran. She ran up Fore Street, and down High Street, and through the market-place, and down to the left, and over the bridge, and up the blind alley, and back again, and round by the castle, and so along by the haberdasher's on the right, opposite the lamp-post, and round the square, and she came--she came to the execution place, where she saw Bulbo laying his head on the block!!! The executioner raised his axe, but at that moment the princess came panting up, and cried "Reprieve!" "Reprieve!" screamed the Princess. "Reprieve!" shouted all the people. Up the scaffold stairs she sprang with the agility of a lighter of lamps, and flinging herself in Bulbo's arms, regardless of all ceremony, she cried out, " O my prince! my lord! my love! my Bulbo! Thine Angelicahas been in time to save thy precious existence, sweet rosebud; to prevent thy being nipped in thy young bloom! Had aught befallen thee, Angelica too had died, and welcomed death that joined her to her Bulbo." "H'm! there's no accounting for tast...