text: THE ROSE AND THE RING
  
  by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  
  PRELUDE 
  
  It happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmas season in a foreign city where there were many English children. 
  In that city, if you wanted to give a child's party, you could not even get a magic-lantern or buy Twelfth-Night characters--those funny painted pictures of the King, the Queen, the Lover, the Lady, the Dandy, the Captain, and so on--with which our young ones are wont to recreate themselves at this festive time. 
  My friend Miss Bunch, who was governess of a large family that lived in the Piano Nobile of the house inhabited by myself and my young charges (it was the Palazzo Poniatowski at Rome, and Messrs. Spillmann, two of the best pastrycooks in Christendom, have their shop on the ground floor): Miss Bunch, I say, begged me to draw a set of Twelfth-Night characters for the amusement of our young people.
tokens: THE ROSE AND THE RING by William Makepeace Thackeray PRELUDE It happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmas season in a foreign city where there were many English children . In that city , if you wanted to give a child 's party , you could not even get a magic - lantern or buy Twelfth - Night characters -- those funny painted pictures of the King , the Queen , the Lover , the Lady , the Dandy , the Captain , and so on -- with which our young ones are wo nt to recreate themselves at this festive time . My friend Miss Bunch , who was governess of a large family that lived in the Piano Nobile of the house inhabited by myself and my young charges ( it was the Palazzo Poniatowski at Rome , and Messrs. Spillmann , two of the best pastrycooks in Christendom , have their shop on the ground floor ): Miss Bunch , I say , begged me to draw a set of Twelfth - Night characters for the amusement of our young people .
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