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field flowers, arranged in festoons by the bee ladies. Around the room, seated in mother-of-pearl armchairs, the nobility of the court, in gala attire, awaited the prince's orders.

There was everything. Serious beetles with glasses and black coats. Cockroaches in mantillas, with forget-me-nots in their hair. Very thin golden bees with ribbons on their wings. Blue flies; frogs of all colors; beautiful water-mothers with slender bodies as light as ballerinas; mice with white collars and buckled shoes; butterflies with gauze headdresses; moths,