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Chapter 1. A Nest Of Ninnies
_ CHAPTER I. A NEST OF NINNIES
"A song, sweet Jacqueline!"
"No, no--"
"Jacqueline!--Jacqueline!--"
"No more, I say--"
A jingle of tinkling bells mingled with the squeak of a viola; the guffaws of a rompish company blended with the tuneless chanting of discordant minstrels, and the gray parrot in its golden cage, suspended from one of the oaken beams of the ceiling, shook its feathers for the twentieth time and screamed vindictively at the roguish band.
Jingle, jingle, went the merry bells; squeak, squeak, the tightened strings beneath the persistent scraping of the rosined bow. On his throne in Fools‘ hall, Triboulet, the king‘s hunchback, leaned complacently back, his eyes bent upon a tapestry but newly hung in that room, the meeting place of jesters, buffoons and versifiers.
"We appeal to Triboulet--"
"Triboulet!"
A girl‘s silvery laugh rang out.
"Triboulet!"
Again the derisive musical tones.
Upon his chair of state, the dwa
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