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bless Q,ueen Otho ! She was born for better things ; she 
might have been the life and soul of some happy family cir¬ 
cle ; she looks ready for a laugh or a romp even now, with 
all the cares of royalty upon her mind. Besides, how could 
I help liking her when she smiled at me ? she, Q,ueen Otho, 
of Greece, smiled at me, reader; not that I hold myself at all 
cheap, but it is no every-day matter to be smiled at by a 
queen. I saw her do it; I smiled back again; she saw me 
smile; then she stopped smiling, and I stopped smiling. 
When 1 stopped smiling, Q,ueen Otho smiled. I liked that 
in her; it showed delicacy of feeling ; it showed that she ap¬ 
preciated delicacy of feeling on my part; it was intended as 
a reward for my forbearance in not continuing to smile when 
she stopped smiling. Consequently, when she smiled again, 
I smiled likewise, to show her that I understood it; upon 
which she quickly stopped smiling again, and turned away 
her face; and I also stopped at the same time, and turned 
away my face; I turned it toward the king. The king 
frowned at me. Otho, King of Greece, had the audacity to 
frown at me, a General in the Bobtail Militia ! My repub¬ 
lican blood was up in a moment. I frowned at Otho, King 
of Greece. He saw me frown ; he saw the danger that might 
result from it; he stopped frowning; and when I perceived 
that I had frowned him down, I also stopped frowning. King 
Otho was so little pleased at being frowned down in this way 
that as soon as I had stopped frowning, he frowned again. 
Of course I returned the frown in the most emphatic manner. 
The queen, perceiving that King Otho and myself were frown¬ 
ing at each other, began to smile; in fact she fully smiled. 
I understood her ; I returned her smile. We both smiled to¬ 
gether. King Otho. saw that we understood one another; 
that we did our smiling together ; that consequences unpleas¬ 
ant to himself might ensue. Therefore he frowned more 
darkly than ever; and I, knowing that jealousy was the 
cause, was determined to show him that I was not the sort 
of person to be intimidated by a frown. Hence I frowned 
back again. King Otho quickly stopped frowning, the queen 
at the same time stopped smiling; and I, having no further 
