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The Rose and the Ring

The Rose and the Ring

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Prelude 

Word Count: 338    |    Released on: 19/11/2017

he last Christmas season in a foreign ci

h-Night characters - those funny painted pictures of the King, the Queen, the Lover, the Lady, the Dandy,

g charges (it was the Palazzo Poniatowski at Rome, and Messrs. Spillmann, two of the best pastry-cooks in Christendom, have their sho

the characters, she and I composed a history about them, which was reci

d Angelica. I am bound to say the fate of the Hall Porter created a considerable s

irch's young friends will be expected to reassemble at Rodwell Regis, where they will learn everyth

n. And you elder folk - a little joking, and dancing, and fooling will do even you no ha

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The Rose and the Ring
The Rose and the Ring
William Makepeace Thackeray Romance
“It happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmas season in a foreign city where there were many English children. In that city, if you wanted to give a child’s party, you could not even get a magic-lantern or buy Twelfth-Night characters — those funny painted pictures of the King, the Queen, the Lover, the Lady, the Dandy, the Captain, and so on — with which our young ones are wont to recreate themselves at this festive time.”
1 Prelude2 I. Shows How the Royal Family Sat Down to Breakfast3 II. How King Valoroso Got the Crown, and Prince Giglio Went Without4 III. Tells Who the Fairy Blackstick Was, and Who Were Ever So MANY GRAND5 IV. How Blackstick Was Not Asked to the Princess Angelica's Christening6 V. How Princess Angelica Took A Little Maid7 VI. How Prince Giglio Behaved Himself8 VII. How Giglio and Angelica Had A Quarrel9 VIII. How Gruffanuff Picked the Fairy Ring Up, and Prince Bulbo CAME TO Court10 IX. How Betsinda Got the Warming Pan11 X. How King Valoroso Was in A Dreadful Passion12 XI. What Gruffanuff Did to Giglio and Betsinda13 XII. How Betsinda Fled, and What Became of Her14 XIII. How Queen Rosalba Came to the Castle of the Bold Count Hogginarmo15 XIV. What Became of Giglio16 XV. We Return to Rosalba17 XVI. How Hedzoff Rode Back Again to King Giglio18 XVII. How A Tremendous Battle Took Place, and Who Won It19 XVIII. How They All Journeyed Back to the Capital20 XIX. And Now We Come to the Last Scene in the Pantomime