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to her. Seal up the palace, that the agent of this perfidious attack may not escape my just and terrible
vengeance. And for the love of heaven, Freddie, put down those frogs!"

"But Mummy --" Prince Goffredo began.

"Not another word. Ugh! Horrid, slimy, pop-eyed things. I don't see how you can bear to touch them.
Well?" (This last word was addressed to the gorgeously appareled crowd still milling about in the
grand salon. I "What are you waiting for? Individual death sentences? That can be arranged."

Some queens owned reputations for beauty, some for grace, some for the fineness of their
needlework. Queen Annunziata's reputation was based solely on the ferocity of her temper and the
ghastly fates that had befallen those rash enough to dally in her presence when the fury took her. The
prince's governess whisked him away, the princess's ladies-in-waiting waited not, but bore her to her
chambers posthaste, leaving her wig behind, and the rest of the hall emptied itself in record time, until
only the queen herself and one other person remained.

"My dear?" A mild voice from the second, lesser throne echoed strangely among the crystal