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Though wedded to a bachelor life, the prince was much too well-bred to make any remonstrance.
The Lady Dragonissa, a female of extraordinary spirit, energy, and ambition, took command of him and of his followers, •conducted them up the Danube, seized a principality whose lord had gone crusading, set her husband on the throne, and became in •course of time the mother of a little prince, who, again, was great, great, great, greatgrandfather of our Prince Prigio.
From this adventurous Lady Dragonissa, Prince Prigio derived his character for gallantry. But her husband, it is said, was often heard to remark, by a slight change of his family motto :
" Anything for a Quiet Wife!11
You now know as much as the Author does of the early history of Pantouflia.
As to the story called The Gold of Fairnilee |
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