PRINCE RICARDO. 131

 

At this moment the butler, William, who had
been in the queen’s family when she was a girl,
entered, and announced:

‘Some of the royal tradesmen, by appoint-
ment, to see your Majesty.”

So the king, who had scarcely eaten any
breakfast, much to the annoyance of the queen,
who was not agitated by eclipses, went out and
joined the tailors and the rest of them.