how the people cheered them as they rode along side by side!
they were pronounced to be the handsomest couple ever seen:
that was a matter of course; but they really were very handsome, and, had they been otherwise, would have looked so, they were so happy! their majesties were never separated during the whole day, but breakfasted, dined, and supped together always, and rode side by side, interchanging elegant compliments, and indulging in the most delightful conversation.
at night, her majesty's ladies of honour (who had all rallied round her the day after king padella's defeat) came and conducted her to the apartments prepared for her; whilst king giglio, surrounded by his gentlemen, withdrew to his own royal quarters.it was agreed they should be married as soon as they reached the capital, and orders were dispatched to the archbishop of blombodinga, to hold himself in readiness to perform the interesting ceremony.duke hedzoff carried the message, and gave instructions to have the royal castle splendidly refurnished and painted afresh.the duke seized glumboso, the ex-prime minister, and made him refund that considerable sum of money which the old scoundrel had secreted out of the late king's treasure.he also clapped valoroso into prison (who, by the way, had been dethroned for some considerable period past), and when the ex-monarch weakly remonstrated, hedzoff said, 'a soldier, sir, knows but his duty; my orders are to lock you up along with the ex-king padella, whom i have brought hither a prisoner under guard.'