her face grew frosty , and she drew herself to her full height in her saddle -a move that might have come off better had she been only slightly taller -and said to him in her most imperious tone , `` we are not amused , prince kheldar , and we do not expect to find a barbarian city at the far end of the world a rival to the splendors of tol honeth , the only truly imperial city in the- '' and then she stopped -as they all did .