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ith these words he conducted them
into a grand saloon, where several musicians
were performing, and various tables,

splendidly furnished, left nothing to be
desired in the way of good cheer.
The Queen-Mother arrived, accompanied by
her future daughter-in-law, the admiral's wife,
and a great number of ladies, and among them
the poor Queen, who had a long strap of
leather round her neck, which also linked the
three dogs to her. They conducted her into the
middle of the saloon, where they had placed a

cauldron filled with bones and bad meat,
which the Queen had ordered for their dinner.
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