text:  "I was in hopes it was some mere matter of a pair of rosy lips and a flaunting top-knot!" "At the time Queen Margaret visited Namur " began the aide-de-camp-- "I knew it!" interrupted Gonzaga "I was as prepared for it as for the opening of a fairy legend--'On a time their lived a king and queen'--" "Will _you_ tell the story then or shall I?"--cried Nignio impatient of his interruption