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| He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and, to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party. |
| Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King’s crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS. |
| The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did it,) he did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming. |
| But success SHALL crown my endeavours. |
| Her hair was the brightest living gold, and despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head. |
| The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but everything is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country. |
| “Such paper could not be bought under half a crown a packet. |
| “I was only Crown Prince then. |
| I was too shaken to go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your advice.” |
| Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and sitting-room at the Crown Inn. |
