16/41 'I wasn't quite myself last night, I'll own, but not to dress up like a circus.' The crowd was all talking at once, and getting rather angry. But no one seemed to think of blaming the Queen. 'Blowed if I can make it out!' they heard. 'I'm off home, I am.' And the crowd, coming slowly to the same mind, dispersed, followed by another crowd of persons who were not dressed in what the Queen thought was the proper way. 'Oh, why did you come dressed like that ?' The Queen leaned against the arm of the horse-hair sofa. |