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sleben does not walk mooch; and she will not that I go out of sight of her."

"But you must get awfully slack, sticking in the gardens all the time," said Erebus.

"Slack? What is slack?" said the princess.

"She means feeble," said the Terror. "But all the same those gardens are big enough; there's plenty of room to run about in them."

"But I do not run. It is not dignified. The Baroness Von Aschersleben would be shocked," said the princess with a somewhat prim air.

"No wonder you're delicate," said Erebus, po-
litely trying to keep a touch of contempt out of her tone, and failing.

"One can not help being delicate," said the prin-
cess.

"I don't know," said the Terror doubtfully. "If you're in the open air a lot and do run about, you don't keep delicate. Wiggins used to be deli-
cate, but he isn't now."

"Who is Wiggins?" said the princess.

"He's a friend of ours—not so old as we are—quite a little boy," said Erebus in a patronizing tone which Wiggins, had he been present, would

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