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...Frank Kaslov, king of the gypsies, journeyed to Milan. His ticket was paid for by 600 U. S. gypsy families, who desired to see the old queen with a grandson and the young king with a wife. But in Milan, Italy, the women were not as his mother had said. "Go to Padua," a stranger advised him. But in Padua a plague had left the gypsy women with pocked cheeks. Too much child-bearing had broadened the gypsies of Cadiz. It was not until he went to Marseilles, on the advice of a knowing uncle, that he found his girl...
...Queen Paras (as she may now call herself) stepped upon the shore, friendly but shy. She wore a red and yellow dress and over it a cloak of dark blue silk. Her hair was tied in braids; she wore no bangles. One hundred gypsies met her at the pier; one hundred gypsies escorted her, with shouts and cymbals, to be crowned a queen in Manhattan...
...Increase Mather, The Foremost American Puritan," by Kenneth B. Murdock '17, "Guminberg to Platini," by G. P. Winship '93, "Prints and Books: Informal Papers," by W. M. Iryins '01, "Harvard University Hymn Book," "What Evolution Is," by G. H. Parker '87, "Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth," by Cowpers Read '03, and "The Passports Printed by Benjamin Franklin at his Passy Press," by R. G. Adams and T. S. Livingston...
...Thomas presumably rotates in his sepulchre during a lively scene wherein the Virgin Queen's bailiffs attempt to arrest Jack, knock him senseless, and are then set upon by Kate with such vigor that she is eventually overpowered in a state described as "mother naked...
Despite the title, Queen Elizabeth appears but fitfully in the text?surrounded by a muster roll of courtiers with the subsequently decapitated Essex at the head. The reader is inclined to "retch" at the Queen's paint-plastered face, stinking breath and blackened teeth?since he is never made to feel the rich tide of power that swelled in Bess...