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DP M TI PEP 0N
Prncess Georgna von dngen, daughter of the Duchess
von dngen.
nna Pauna, her sster.
The Duchess von dngen, mother of Georgna and
nna Pauna.
The Emperor Matthew, nephew of Prnt Ethebert, and
betrothed to Georgna.
Prnce Ethebert, unce of the Duchess von dngen,
and of the Emperor Matthew, and godfather of Georgna.
Prnce |oachm op reneurech, son of Prnce Ethebert.
ueen 0rtrude of ngaga,
Prncess 0va of ngaga,
Prncess hemna of ngaga, |- her daughters.
Prncess |ohanna of ngaga,
Mrs. ttt randt, mother of ruen L.
rauen L, rst Lady-n- atng to Duchess von
Udngen.
rauen Toptz, Georgna s e -governess.
erbert Norden, nephew of TVpte and attache to the
Emperor Matthew.
Lma Marna, an actress, n ove wth Prnce |oachm.
Doctor ohute, Court dentst at reneurech.
Mr. |ohn Grey, an mercan, a frend of Prncess
|ohanna s.
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cknowedgment and my best thanks
are due to Mr. ughes Masse for hs
coaboraton,
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P0Y L L0VEP
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Prncess Georgna von dngen
to rauen Toptz
choss Taarbruek.
Dear rauen,
The choss s tremendousy busy, and
every one much e cted that s, every one but your
tte pup, who s very azy and de ndeed. The
young Emperor s to vst us, and my sster w be
betrothed to hm, and everythng w be as gay as
gay can be. I am to keep n my room durng s
Ma|esty s stay, mamma says, but of course I sha be
up and dong at dawn to-morrow, and sha fy off to
em, and em sha have me, f no one ese w.
My beautfu em hat woud he thnk f I
were to forget hm |ust because of ths two-and-
twenty years od emperor who s comng to woo my
sster whom he has never seen . . . nna Pauna
s pretty and demure, amost as ta as I, and much
more reasonabe than your frocsome Prncess
Georgna.
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2 P0Y L L0VEP
Dear rauen, I st hate needework and
crochet ha I ever be any better, do you thnk
ut I ke you, so you see I m not whoy bad. Do,
pease, fnd somethng new to teach me, so that you
may soon come back and dress my har n that
charmng, pecuar way of yours. I mss your
nmbe fngers wth ther ngerng tte touches.
My har seems to be growng onger and onger
every day, and gettng such a strange coour t
remnds me of the god whch my cousn rederc
wore on hs unform when he rode up to the choss
at the tme of hs betrotha to my aunt, Duchess
Tyrrha. e aways came une pectedy, and at
nght. I was a tte gr of tweve then, and I have
been n my teens three years now. e, t was
whspered that ng rederc, my handsome cousn,
spent hs days on an sand, wthn sound of the
sterm surf, and there, oungng on a couch of sver
and vory, upon cushons worthy of a yzantne
autocrat, he stened to the wd rhapsodes of a
muscan who was hs frend, and whom he caed hs
Damon a Greek word whch I do not understand,
nor you ether, dear rauen. I smpy know that
Greece s a and whch, once upon a tme, many,
many centures ago, was peoped wth gods and
goddesses, that s to say, beautfu mads and hand-
some young men. 0h, rauen, how I do ove
beautfu faces I often wonder whether mne s
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I sme at the refecton of my own face, and pay
that I am beautfu, and w one day attract a hand-
some prnce, one who w - resembe my cousn
rederc, and come to the choss on a whte charger,
by nght, to the svery bast of a mysterous horn.
ut then, my aunt s marrage never took pace the
betrotha was abrupty broken off, you remember.
nd my cousn, ng rederc I dare not wrte what
I thnk.
Mamma has had one of her very bad headaches
ths mornng. ut pease, dear rauen, why w
you never te me why mamma screams so terrby
when these bad headaches come upon her I waked
up the corrdor ths afternoon, and as I passed her
door I heard mamma shrek, and rauen L came
out of the room ke mad, and amost forgot to
curtsey, and actuay touched my seeve, sayng n
hurred tones, I entreat Your Poya ghness to
retre
rauen L s the most mpertnent mad n the
whoe choss, and I thnk I sha compan of her.
he speaks to me before I address her, aganst a
rues an nfracton of etquette whch you, dear
rauen, woud never be guty of.
nna Pauna s tryng on her new frocks. In a
month nna Pauna w be an empress, and the
wfe of a charmng husband. It appears my future
brother-n-aw sts hs horse better than the best
rder n hs bg Empre, dances admraby, and has a
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ow, caressng voce. nna Pauna w not prove a
proud empress. Nor s she a bzarre creature as
I am. ... I have broken em n, and two other
horses, ths ast fortnght. . . .
rauen Toptz to rauen L ( rst
ammer- rau to er Poya ghness the
Duchess von dngen).
Dear rauen L,
er Poya ghness the Prncess Georgna
seems annoyed at some brusqueness n your manner,
and may fee obged to compan of you. Perhaps she
s feeng put out for fear the Emperor s vst w
prevent her from spendng her usua haf-hour every
mornng n the stabes wth her favourte horse,
em. It mght be a wse thng f you were to
obtan from the Duchess her permsson for these
vsts to contnue as usua. e understand why t
s so desrabe, even necessary, that the Emperor
shoud not see a face a thousand tmes oveer than
that of the Prncess nna Pauna, hs brde to-be.
Prncess nna Pauna must be provded for the
Emperor s we peased wth her portrat, and must
surey be deghted wth the orgna f he does
not see Prncess Georgna. Prncess nna Pauna
s your favourte, Prncess Georgna mne. Dear
rauen L, I congratuate you on the prospect
openng to your ambton. rst ammer- rau to
an Empress The knd Duchess w mss you bady
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but then, I w ook after her, whe gvng Prncess
Georgna her essons n needework.
There need be no fear whatever of a meetng be-
tween the young beauty and the youthfu Emperor.
Prncess Georgna w be ony n the orchard, for
em s at present n one of the sma stabes at the
end of t, a pace not meant for the nspecton of the
Impera guest. . . .
rauen Toptz to erbert Norden ( rst
ammer-Dener of the Emperor Matthew).
Dear erbert,
Pease advse E. M. to take a wak n the
orchard between s and seven n the mornng, dur-
ng hs stay at Taarbruck choss. nd do not try
to nqure nto the cause of the hnt gven by
Your affectonate aunt,
Ida.
The Duchess von dngen to s Impera
ghness Prnce Ethebert.
Dear, knd Unce,
ow many of my most ardent thanks you
deserve The Emperor s charmed wth nna
Pauna, and we are a n ove wth your nephew.
e are peased and happy, and our happness s due
to you, dear Unce. I wsh you coud have seen the
young coupe wakng on our moont terraces ast
evenng. You know how savagey pcturesque s the
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scenery around the choss, worthy of a avatore
Posa.
nna Pauna mght have proved a heavy burden
on our hands but for your kndy nterventon. I fear
t s not for nothng we are caed a dstraught famy,
nor s t wthout reason that many of the Courts of
Europe vew an aance wth us wth apprehenson.
s you are Georgna s godfather, we sha ne t
year appy to you agan, puttng the tte gr s
future n your knd and powerfu hands. That man,
the musca composer whom my cousn rederc cas
a genus, was much struck wth the chd when he
came to the choss s years ago. I remember the
scene. rederc, hs bue eyes afame, had aghted
hasty from the carrage, and, brushng past us,
asked n a sharp, mperous voce, here s the
pano The muscan, on-faced and stawart,
more ke a gymnast than an artst, foowed hm
cosey, and wthout even a bow hastened to the
nstrument. food of harmonous derum per-
vaded the whoe househod, as the man s hand drew
a storm of passon and savage fury from the keys.
rederc, wth pups dated, stood by hs sde
nd then t was that Georgna, her ovey har
dsheveed, her feet bare, waked nto the room, a
vson of wd and dreamy beauty. frghtened
handmad foowed wth tha abandoned shoes,
decarng the Prncess had escaped from her |ust
as she was dressng her for dnner when the heroc
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strans had reached her chamber, Georgna had
fown down-stars ke one rresponsbe, the mage
of a youthfu Vakyre, a chdsh goddess whose
presence threw a spe over us a. er hands were
casped. The werd muscan rose when he saw her.
rt thou Loree, or one of the Phne naads
quoth he, or runnhde ho art thou Then
he noted the strkng keness that e sts between
Georgna and ng rederc, and muttered, Thou
art of hs race . . . thou art doomed ke hm. rom
that hour, Georgna has never seemed to me the
same chd.
To you aone, dear Unce, can the overfowng
heart of a mother pour out ts confdence. Georgna
s unke her sster, unke the other prncesses n
Germany, unke every other maden of her own
age. the dreadfu fate of our ouse fa upon
her I try as much as possbe to dscourage her
n her snguar tastes, but I cannot prevent her
from sttng dreamng for hours, then rdng un-
tamed horses, wth her ong har streamng,
bsaom-ke, behnd her.
nna Pauna s wrapped up n her worshp of
Matthew. I never e pected they woud get to ove
one another so qucky. e has ony been here
twenty-four hours. They are a spendd par.
Georgna s kept carefuy n the background, and
seems contented wth the sotude of her own apart-
ment but my mad L, who s keen and ntegent,
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has persuaded me that t woud be crue to deprve
the chd of her day vst to her favourte horse, so
Georgna rses at dawn and runs off to hs stabe.
The Emperor has not yet made any arrangements as
to the date of the marrage ceremony, whch, as you
know, s to take pace here but they both seem
rather an ous that t shoud be soon. I have not
even aowed a tete-a-tete between nna Pauna and
Georgna t mght be dangerous as we as foosh
to run any rsk of payng havoc wth Georgna s
magnaton by puttng deas of ove-matters nto
that terrby hot and mysterous head of hers. o
she has seen but very tte of her sster, and she
w make Matthew s acquantance ony when he
returns a few days before hs marrage.
My heath s bad, as usua. I cannot seep, and
when I do get a few mnutes, I dream oh such
awfu, mpossbe dreams.
rederc s havng a seventh caste but, and
that man, the composer, never eaves hm now.
ow can the ng endure eght or nne hours
musc a day, and wth such a eng ever at hs sde
overwhemng hm wth foods of genus Is he a
god or a demon, that man rederc and hs
muscan remnd me forcby of au and Davd.
. . . ut no more of the sub|ect. nna Pauna and
Matthew are so happy that we need not drag out
the skeeton from our coset n dscussng the
future Empress and her charmng rantgam.
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Good-bye, dear unce. e ook forward to your
arrva. I w te you the date of the marrage
ceremony as soon as a questons of etquette and
protoco are setted. rederc says you are wrong
to ove Pubens better than Mantegna. There I
am promotng open warfare between ng rederc
and Prnce Ethebert
Your devoted and gratefu nece,
deade.
Lna Marna, Prma Donna n the Impera 0pera
of rena, to Prnce |oachm of reneurech.
Dear Prnce,
I cannot aspre to rvary wth a vng
prncess, though I vanqush kngs, despte ther
|eaous consorts, on the stage. My every heart-beat
s heavy snce I have heard that Your Impera
ghness s betrothed to the Prncess 0va of
ngaga. May I, on ths occason, offer Your
Impera ghness my most reverent and sncere
congratuatons ut oh |oachm, how sha I
shed my sou from a the pan that assas t
ere am I eft wthout one snge ray of hope or
consoaton
Do you remember do you remember the scene
of our frst meetng That evenng I payed the
part of een of Troy, as I sha to-nght at the
gaa performance n honour of ueen 0rtrude and
her daughter. nd one of these s to be your
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brde Do you remember I rushed off the stage
I rushed nto your ove, dear Prnce. ow sha
I manage to forget that scene The passonate
adeu of een to Pars st made my bosom heave.
een had sent away her over, and the partng had
proved what partngs ever are. ut she fet strongy
tempted to reca hm, and the ferce desre of een
to gaze upon Pars agan made my eyes geam.
Instanty t seemed to me as f the far vson of
temptaton and |oy was before my st outstretched
arms when I saw you. ut a few moments ater
I earned the woefu reaty, that you were a prnce,
her-apparent to the Impera crown of reneurech.
Do you remember, do you remember your vst
to my fat n Cadbruchstrasse, and how you then
tod me that your cousn the Emperor Matthew was
about to trave n search of a wfe, and that the
prospect of hs marrage was one of utter freedom to
you, as you woud certany be deprved of the her-
shp by the brth of an Impera son h those
were days of madness, ove, rapture, heaveny bss.
You oved me then, Prnce |oachm, you oved
me as the youth and as the artst you are, and I
oved you as I sha never ove agan, as I had never
oved before
Then came the sudden encounter at the 0pera
wth that grm and mysterous personage, Doctor
chute, the Court dentst. I can trace a my
msfortunes back to the moment when I met that
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man. e dogged my steps. I fatered before the
keen penetraton of hs gance. e sad, eware
your over s a prnce. You w prove the oss of
hs rank and fortune, and maybe hs fe. The man
maddened me, oh, my |oachm The rest I cannot
te. spe es on my tongue. hat hs am
was I sha never be abe to dscover. The man has
runed our ove, destroyed my career, changed the
|oy of my heart nto a wretched heap of ashes.
e happy wth your brde, far Prnce. I sha
perhaps forget, perhaps carry nto the darkness of
the tomb the gowng ght of my ove. arewe.
To-nght, once more, before your future wfe, Prncess
0va, I sha be een of Troy, and stretch out my
arms towards the shp that s to carry me away.
arewe, farewe. the frenzy of the Vesuvan
wnes, a the bood that strred my forefathers n
ther hours of vengeance, swes n my vens, . . .
arewe. . . .
Doctor chute to er Ma|esty the ueen of
NIG LI .
Madam,
May I humby request Your Ma|esty s
pardon f I draw the ueen s attenton to the fact
that gnorna Lna Marna pays the prncpa part
afy the 0pera to-nght. It seems advsabe that
Your Ma|esty and er Poya ghness Prncess
0va shoud grace the Impera bo wth ther

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august presence. Thus far I have contrved to keep
the Prnce away from the gnorna, and hope to
succeed n partng them. The Prnce beeves that
she s unfathfu, and about to marry Your Ma|esty s
humbe servant. he wrtes many etters, but they
fa nto hands we suted to receve them. . . .
ueen 0rtrude of ngaga to Doctor
c ULTE (Court Dentst to s Ma|esty the
Emperor of reneurech).
Dear Doctor,
The pecuar means you are takng to
serve my nterests do not pease my conscence,
and are appang to our dgnty.
0rtrude, P.
Prncess 0va of ngaga to her ster,
L ELMIN .
Prnce |oachm has not yet addressed me. e
ooks wretched. I am afrad the affar w not
come off, after a. o much the better, dear
hemna. I coud not ve n occdenta cmes.
I pne for our beautfu country and the sunght on
the sea and the mmorta sprng. ere autumn and
wnter are at strfe round a few mserabe trees
whose foage s as brown as the dear faces of our
soders n the Poya Guard. propos of Poya
Guard, s Count Guo st n command e has
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sent mother such ovey fowers my favourte
fowers, hemna
Your affectonate sster,
0va.
Prncess hemna of ngaga to her ster,
Prncess 0va.
Estaa.
Dear 0va,
e rather e pected news of your betrotha.
hat s Prnce |oachm about Does he beeve a
ueen s daughter can be made to awat hs bon
pasr I wsh you woud drop that frtaton wth
Count Guo, 0va. e was at the Paace dnner
yesterday, and reveng n the fact that gossps n
rena are takng of Prnce |oachm s nfatuaton for
a vugar actress, haf mercan and haf Itaan, and
whose name I forget.
nd s mamma st nfuenced by Doctor chute,
the se and 0bsequous eavy-|awed, heavy-
pped, wth heavy eyeds overtoppng a par of
sodden eyes whch, aas they cannot concea, the
man s eaden face refects, I am convnced, a eaden,
wcked sou. Yet perhaps to make amends
nature endows hm wth the keen ntuton and
cunnng bran of a schemer. Lghty and skfuy
he foows the ntrcate mazes of court ntrgues and
court match-makng. There are few court secrets
n Europe whose subtetes he has not guessed or
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fathomed. ather does not ke Doctor chute
but then, father s ony a prnce consort, and
mamma s opnons and deas have e panded to the
heght and breadth of her rghts as a regnng queen.
0va, Doctor chute has actuay promsed our
mother that every one of her three daughters,
the Prncesses 0va, |ohanna and hemna of
ngaga, sha not reach ther thrteth year before
ascendng a throne. nd mamma s bent on beng
the mother of three queens.
I hear the Emperor Matthew of reneurech s
about to marry that dear smpeton, nna Pauna
of dngen. Is that marrage, too, one of the
Doctor s chefs-d oeuvre If so, I suppose he s to
persuade the Impera coupe to reman chdess,
so that your future husband, Prnce |oachm, the
present her-apparent, sha reman the Crown Prnce,
and fnay become an emperor. Perhaps Doctor
chute mght prove cever enough to make the
new-born babe dsappear, as was the case wth that
wretched poetca feow, Gasper auser. . . . ut
I am takng at random.
Count Guo had tte of good to say of the
dngen famy. e wonders at the Emperor s
courage n marryng nna Pauna and brngng the
ugy menace of madness under hs roof. ut we
must remember Prnce |oachm s mother s a Prn-
cess of dngen, and, besdes, Count Guo most
mpertnenty dspays hs persona dske of Prnce
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|oachm. 0va dear, even shoud nothng come of
ths proposed betrotha at Estaa, for eaven s sake
do not dsgrace yoursef and us by your open approva
of Count Guo s attentons to you.
|ohanna s pantng away at her prayer-books.
young mercan, sad to be cever n occut
scences, has of ate caed wth etters to father,
and has been nvted to Court three or four tmes.
|ohanna s qute wrapped up n hs theores. he
says that through hs teachng she has had a
gmpse, rea, though transtory, of her sou s
hs teachng seems transparent enough, perhaps she
does see somethng through t, but as to ts beng
her sou I have some doubts. ut we mustn t
bame poor |ohanna. or years she has been
worryng about her sou ke a sy butterfy round
a nght-amp. The young mercan s endowed wth
curous, amost opa-tnted eyes, whose depths, I
must admt, possess a fascnatng show of
temperament hs fgure and teeth are good hs
mouth suppe and amost femnne n ts curves.
e has a remarkaby magnetc touch, but he
appears to keep hs power for hgher and more
remote ends than the patry peasure of hodng
sway over hs feow-creatures. ut no more of hm.
I am gad that he draws |ohanna out. he shoud
not reman a haf-nun a her fe. s name I
am sure you must be dyng to know hs name. It
s smpe, ke hs words |ohn Grey. e w spend
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the wnter n Estaa our od tempes and the
antque beauty of the runs and andscapes chan hm
to our dear natve and, whose hstory seems to
arouse n hm a whrwnd of enthusasm.
Now, 0va dear, are you, or are you not, gong
to become Prncess of reneurech and heress-
apparent eress-apparent at any rate unt the
arrva of a tny her who must beware of Doctor
chute . . . Papa s a-engrossed n the wrtng
of hs memors. Dear, knd papa hat can he
reate n hs memors but the trumph of passveness,
of whch he s the hero among heroes and not the
martyr, as one mght suppose. e has ved up to
hs dea, that s to say, the entre aboton of hs
proper sef a day vctory over hs own desres,
over ambton and prde, etc. e aways seems to
con|ugate a verb I have nvented whe watchng
hm I prnce-consortze. hat a darng he s
Does mother st food Europe wth her etters
er sceptre es n her nkstand, and our future too.
0va, what are daughters caed who are crushed
under ther mother s spper, or even n the fods of
her pocket-handkerchef 0ne of us must, and w
set up an awfu reacton. ho w be the scanda-
rouser among us three Not |ohanna, most
certany and not mysef. 0va, 0va, gve up
Count Guo and the ke of hm. nd I had a bad
dream ast week, dear sster. I dreamed, whe
drops of perspraton ran down on my pow, I
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dreamed that Doctor chute and mother were
pannng and contrvng a marrage between mysef
and the second son of the ng of uevor an dot.
The edest son s very t s we known that he
w not ve ong, and the crown w go to the
dot . . .
Prncess Georgna von dngen to rauen
Toptz.
choss Taarbruck.
Dear, dear rauen,
Imagne, I have actuay seen the Emperor,
and even spoken to hm a fact whch mother and
nna Pauna know nothng of as yet. nd I know
I sha be scoded. ut s t my faut f I cannot
seep when dawn creeps nto my chamber, f I cannot
put up wth drawn bnds, f I am the save of day-
ght, and caed nto the garden by the gente,
noseess bes of dew-drops nd the orchard s so
far before sunrse, when a the fowers on the trees
are as so many bts of sver faen from the
moon. . . .
I had wandered through the orchard, and had
stopped a second under the young peach-trees, one
second ony, to gather up the tran of my whte
dress. I heard the foage str, and, started, I ooked
around, and there, mene rauen, stood a young man,
a very young man Does t not read ke one of
those ovey egends you aways forbade me to read
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you dear advocate of the neede e wore a
costume of dazzng whte a oose mante, short as
the mantes of the Pantagenet kngs, a mante of
azure hue, was oosey fung over hs rght shouder
hs head was bare and hs har goden, hs eyes bue,
deep and dreamy. e bowed ow. I coected
mysef and returned the bow cody, as every young
prncess s bound to do. ut he, unabashed by my
dstant hauteur, asked me who I was.
0ny thnk To ask me who I am, n the orchard
of my own father s schoss ancy The dea
made me amost de wth suppressed aughter, and I
wanted to say, oosh youth, I am the Prncess
Georgna von dngen. ut I smpy answered,
wth the greatest ar of dgnty I coud assume,
I am the sster of the brde.
The youth bushed, and asked, re you ndeed
the sster of Prncess nna Pauna
My sster s the future wfe of the Emperor of
reneurech, sad I, and I am to be present at
the weddng, and wear a dress of whte and god
coth, and a sma crown of pen-roses n my har.
e cannot get pen-roses |ust now, and they are
my favourte fowers, perhaps because they are
dffcut to get. omehow, t seems one has to con-
front per, and even rsk death, n order to secure
them.
0h no, sad the young man, wth an amused
twnke n hs aughng bue eyes you do not
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know much of the word, far nd. pen-roses are
to be found very easy n our tyran mountans.
Edewess aone grows on the most gddy heghts.
I casped my hands n eagerness: Edewess
Do you thnk I coud wear edewess on the day of
my sster s marrage
You sha have edewess before that, beautfu
nd.
Now, I fet offended at beng caed a chd.
Pemember, I wore my ong mornng gown, and
ooked mghty mportant, and the young man was
not much taer than mysef but, though he fre-
quenty bushed, hs answers betrayed a sef-composed
nature. e drew me out as no one has ever done
before, and made me fee at ease wth hm, as f he
had been my paymate for years. Dear rauen,
you know you have caed me senstve and shy
tacturn, you ve sad when I ve e asperated you.
t any rate, I m senced wth a syabe. ut I
have never been more takatve n my fe than wth
the young stranger n the orchard that mornng.
ehnd hm, a wonderfu mass of bood-red spendour,
the sun rose, throwng streaks of red and purpe at
our feet, and tracng a gorous avenue of ght, a
crmson aey on the grass between that young
unknown and mysef. or fve mnutes I remaned
motoness, as one n a trance. e touched my
casped hands wth gente but mperous fngers.
You sha have your edewess, murmured he, and
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when I turned to answer, I saw hm wakng swfty
away among the trees.
In the afternoon nna Pauna came to me.
Georgna, sad she, kssng me wdy, you met
the Emperor n the garden ths mornng.
I ooked at her n sncere surprse. The Emperor
was that young man n whte, wth a short bue
mante, the Emperor of reneurech, your future
husband 1 0h, nna Pauna, I am gad for you
e s handsome and knd he remnds me of a the
heroes and the mnnesngers we both ove. I am
so gad, nna Pauna.
ut nna Pauna s eyes were fed wth tears,
and she put her head on my shouder, and sad wth
a sob, Ltte sster, tte sster h, you are
gueess ndeed, dear tte sster
Now, rauen, what coud have been the matter
wth nna Pauna 0h, I am so afrad she has
nherted mamma s sudden fts of meanchoy. he
shoud be the happest among mads. e hat aes
was en Madchen begehrt. he has a that a far mad
can wsh. The Emperor s spendd eyes, de schonsten
ugen, are beamng wth fe and ove. rauen
L has tod my mad that I shoud be ocked up n
my room t noon, a suggeston I deem barbarous.
The bg ba w take pace to-morrow nght, and
sha I not be aowed to see the preparatons
uge garands of roses are beng carred up-stars.
I sha wrte to you to-morrow, for t s a tme of
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events, and events are precous thngs even though
they don t concern me. I suppose I am the wdest
and most unruy Prncess of Germany. I wsh I
coud see the baroom before the guests come n,
when the ta candeabra are abaze.
Georgna.
The Empeeor Matthew of reneurech to hs
Unce, Prnce Ethebert.
Dear Unce,
I am afrad there s some mstake as to
the dentty of the future Empress. It s the
Prncess Georgna von dngen, and not her eder
sster, as rumour w have t, that I am to marry.
The offca engagement w take pace ths evenng.
you kndy te our Court offcas and frends
that my mnd was made up from the moment I saw
the Prncess Georgna, your god-chd. I am mady
n ove wth ths young gr, st a wd-sprted chd
n years and ooks. Prncess nna Pauna hersef
seems deghted wth her sster s prospects, and the
poor Duchess, who s aways , re|oces too. I hope
|oachm w soon enabe us to congratuate hm aso
on the choce of a wfe. I hear that Prncess 0va
s a very nce gr ndeed, and you know how deepy
I respect ueen 0rtrude and her Consort. uf
oedersehn, dear unce.
Your affectonate nephew,
Matthew, I. P.
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erbert Norden ( rst ammer-Dener of
the Emperor Matthew of reneurech) to
rauen Toptz.
choss Taarbnwk.
Now, what have you been about, dear aunt The
choss s topsy-turvy, and even ke unto my dear
master s heart. The Duchess weeps and smes by
turns. Prncess nna Pauna weeps and w never
sme agan. Your nephew, erbert Norden, seeps
not a wnk, for hs master whstes, sngs and paces
hs apartment a nght. Prncess Georgna, a
unwttng of events, s quety eft to the prvacy of
her chamber. Men Gott what can a poor am-
mer-Dener do when hs master s n ove, but proft
by the crcumstance I have asked as many favours
from the Emperor as I wear buttons on the front
of my very, and every one s granted, and sster
atchen w be s th mad to the Empress Georgna
(yesterday the future Empress of reneurech
was caed nna Pauna), and en w get hs
chdren nto one of the best schoos n rena,
patronzed by s Ma|esty, and your nephew
erbert Norden w be abe to marry the doctor s
nece because erbert s rch.
Dear unt, you are so cever and good that I
shoud ke to erect a statue to your knttng-
needes. You have kntted and kntted unt you
have got a huge stockng ready nto whose humbe
depths are now thrust the destnes of an empre.
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hat am I sayng 0ny one empre The fate
of many empres, and your favourte Prncesschen
s to be our overegn s brde Ths evenng, at the
cose of the ba, the engagement w be announced,
and poor nna Pauna, a sant and martyr
martyrs and sants are so easy thrust asde w
be present, and has promsed to assure every one
that from the very frst day of hs stay n Taarbruck
the Emperor has sought her sster s hand, and that
her waks, nna Pauna s, wth the Emperor were
ony meant as a dverson for the young monarch s
mpatence. ecause of Prncess Georgna s e treme
youth the fact that a marrage was beng panned
for her coud not abrupty be announced to her, so
nna Pauna acted the part of a go-between. Now,
s not Prncess nna Pauna a foo as are a
sants and martyrs to our morta eyes. he mght
have made a great fuss, and proved an obstace
between Georgna and the throne.
My master at frst seemed to fear that anmosty
or a sprt of revenge mght move nna Pauna to
make some sort of a dsturbance, even though n
roya crces rows are so carefuy hushed up. ut
he need not have worred, for most peope become
tame anmas n the presence of emperors and
kngs, and nna Pauna s no e cepton. Ths
s as t has ever been, and shoud be. The
Emperor rngs. I m off. Good-bye.
erbert Nobden.
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rauen L goes from one hysterca ft to
another. he s qute unsuspcous of our part
n the affar. he hoped to accompany nna
Pauna to rena, and be the mad of an empress
and her hope s caput. There that nsufferabe
youngster rngs agan. . N.
Prncess Georgna von dngen to rauen
Toptz.
Taarbruck.
Dear rauen,
I promsed to wrte a ong etter, and sha
ony be abe to send a few nes, and n such utter
haste. I am gong to the ba ths evenng. The
Emperor how deghtfu of hm has nssted on
t. nd then t was crue, was t not, to thnk
of keepng me away from the scene of my sster s
engagement o I have been busy tryng on my
dress, whch rauen L pns and unpns whe
I stand n the mdde of the room, a radant
vctm.
rauen L s hands are ke her tongue unruy
and more than one pn whch was meant for the
soft fods of musn and the ovey edewess fowers
has hed communon wth poor me nstead. nd
rauen L never even asked to be pardoned. I
am rather sorry for her, for I notced that her hands
and her ps trembed.
Doctor chute, the Emperor s dentst, has arrved.
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e seems to be a frend of the Emperor and of the
whoe Impera famy, a busy match-maker, etc.
rauen L spoke of the great e pense occasoned
by the Emperor s vst. I hate to hear an open
auson to our poverty. Dear rauen, sha I have
to gve em away when the Emperor s gone and
nna Pauna marred, and when, I suppose, our
debtors w rush upon us n a huge host 1 I hate
the bare dea of hearng mother moan over our e -
penses. nna Pauna steps to the throne over our
ast thousands, but she w be mmensey weathy,
and w perhaps save me from seng em.
There what dd I te you rauen L and
the dressmaker are watng for me agan. To-
morrow you sha have a fathfu and soemn de-
scrpton of the ba. I forgot to te you that the
Emperor sent me a whoe basketfu of the rare
edewess, addng that he had one bg fower eft,
whch he meant to offer hmsef, f I consented
to have the ast quadre wth hm. I must ask
mother whether I am to accept.
Georgna.
Prncess Georgna von dngen to rauen
Toptz.
Taarbruck.
0 rauen, dear rauen hat a terrbe, what
an eventfu day ths has been, and where sha I fnd
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above a, that awfu feeng of sef-conscousness and
shame whch uttery prostrates me
ut frst et us tak about the ba. To my sur-
prse, as I entered the gded gaery, ushered n by
two chamberans, every one seemed to be ookng at
me. nd the chamberans seemed to have made a
mstake, for they forced me to take precedence of my
eder sster, who waked cose upon my hees, pae as
death. Not one of the pears she wore n a strng
on her neck was paer than nna Pauna. nd
mother rose to meet me, and whspered, Mnd,
Georgna, you are not to dance before the end of the
ba, at mdnght, and then you must wak the
quadre wth the Emperor of reneurech.
nd whereas Cnderea at mdnght saw her
dream vansh, yours w become a reaty, sad the
Emperor, who stood by mother s sde.
I spent a tedous enough evenng, wth muffed
e camatons and mysterous smes around me, and
mother s an ous ooks, and nna Pauna s haunted
face ever n front of me, and the ta Emperor bend-
ng over my shouder, so cose that hs ght mous-
tache amost touched my har. e was not so
charmng as n the orchard the other mornng, and
he never approached nna Pauna, and she never
addressed a snge word to hm, but seemed to
avod us both. was strange and bewderng, ke
a wak n faryand, but wthout any attendant
farea nd suddeny I bethought me of the Man
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who s a muscan, and s aways Cousn rederc s
guest, and now Cousn rederc s shadow. I thought
of one of hs savage strans, as the pano moaned and
trembed and my sprt traveed far, far from the
gded gaery where so many thousands of human
eyes seemed to try to draw a mystery from my
eyes.
Then the quadre began, and I scarcey touched
the Emperor s hand as we met and parted n the
dance, and as I bowed ow to thank hm for the pass-
ng courtesy, he gave me an mmense edewess, whose
stak was god studded wth damonds. I remaned
sent, abashed and greved. as the gorgeous
present meant for me aone pang of |eaousy
shot through my heart. e oved my sster so
deary that he wanted to gratfy her by peasng me.
e treated me as a chd st, n spte of the whte
musn dress, and my grand ars and dgnfed att-
tude I took the fower wthout one syabe of
grattude, whe the Emperor smed a trumphant
sme, whch was mmedatey refected on the face
of every person present.
nna Pauna s, as you know, but sghty shorter
than mysef, therefore so much above the medum
heght that I coud dstngush her proud head above
the others as she tred to sme too, a sme so
doorous and pure, the phantom of a sme and as
she eaned aganst the wa, wth arms e tended, for
one bref second she ooked ke one cruc vd aganst
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the whteness of the draperes. The ba was at
an end.
e retred to our apartments, one by one, ushered
out as we had been ushered n by two chamberans.
nd n my room I found a note from my mother,
teng me she woud be wth me before I rose ths
mornng, and that nna Pauna had somethng to
te me before I went to seep, o I sent my mad
away and, wthout takng off my ba-dress and my
|ewes, awated my sster.
The whoe schoss was n that pecuary heavy
sence suggestve of seep we earned by the nmates
of a crowded dweng a sence whch the sound of
the rver aganst the brdge tred n van to break
a sence so deep that, under ts charm, I amost fe
nto one of those trances whch so frghtened you,
darng, and whch our doctor caed by a werd name
dffcut to remember and to pronounce. The frou-
frou of a trang sk gown rustng down the corr-
dor announced the arrva of my sster, and at the
haf-open door she murmured, even before I coud
see her, ow out the candes, Georgna. My eyes
are so sore, so terrby sore nd I bew out the
ghts, and the bg sver candeabra shone ke
spectres n the moonght, and the shadow of the
round tower was thrown across the foor. 0n the
threshod nna Pauna s form swayed to and fro,
and I recaed a water-y that I had one day tred
to put straght on ts suppe stem, and the stem was
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too suppe, the fower too heavy, for the fower was
accustomed to e on the rver, and the stem to
recne.
Then nna Pauna sad agan, n that ow voce
of hers whch s a new voce n her and makes her
qute unrecognzabe, Georgna, wak straght nto
the moonght, so that I may see your face whe I
speak. nd nna Pauna stepped nto the shade,
and I mght have thought she was not there, but for
her voce, so ow, so sad.
Georgna, sten to me, she sad, and do not
say a word t I have fnshed speakng. Georgna,
there was a brde under our father s roof yesterday,
and I was that brde. Georgna, under our father s
roof there s st a brde, and you are that brde.
Georgna, the Emperor has earnt to ove you, and
to unove me. The w of God be done. I have
prayed, and I fee strong, and my sacrfce now
seems as naught to me but God s w has taken my
oy from me for ever, and ever, and ever, and ever.
nna Pauna kept repeatng the phrase for ever
t I thought she woud never stop. The sound of
her braceets and |eweed fngers wrestng together
seemed to e press the angush of her heart.
I tred to speak, but I fet mute and hepess,
as f a stone were ad on my mouth, and nna
Pauna went on, The Emperor s n ove wth you,
my dear darng. Yes, he fe n ove n the very
frst moment of your meetng, and he spoke to mother

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and decared he woud keep to hs engagement wth
me uness of my own free w I reeased hm.
efore nna Pauna coud say any more I
hurred out of the moonght nto the shadow, and
sezed her arms. nd why dd you reease hm,
nna Pauna I cred. hy not cng to your
rghts and to your ove re you a coward, to gve
up what beongs to you 0h, why dd you reease
hm
ut nna Pauna faed to understand the
meanng of my ndgnaton. sgh of reef escaped
her ps. You refuse to marry the Emperor, then
You do not ove hm
I hd the ugy truth whch was afame n me, and
reped, Certany, I refuse to marry your betrothed
husband. Even f he s no onger so yes, even f
you swear that you have accompshed your sacrfce
wthout one snge pang of regret.
nna Pauna s tears, hot and rapd, fe on my
hands and on the fods of my ba-dress. My
happness s gone, she sad. hatever happens,
I am gratefu to you, darng yet t woud be better
f you accepted. e are poor mother s not gettng
any better, and the gory of our ouse s nvoved n
the great match that s now offered to you. You
must not dsappont our famy and our peope.
nna Pauna peaded warmy, and the sweet
dgnty of her demeanour struck chords of pty and
admraton of thrng depths whch had htherto
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been unknown to me. Yet I nssted: Don t be
a coward You must fght for your ove fght
aganst the whoe word
ut nna Pauna ony sad, It woud be qute
useess, Georgna. Love s my enemy, perhaps
because I have not oved strongy enough, and ove
must be my undong. eeve me do not aow
the compasson you fee for me as your sster to
bght your own prospects and the prospects of our
famy, an unhappy race at best, doomed, I fear, to a
dreadfu doom, whose secret has not been so we
kept that the Emperor of reneurech woud ever
have thought of seekng a wfe among the daughters
of dngen had not Unce Ethebert succeeded
n convncng hm that the awfu maady s not
heredtary n our ne. Georgna, mother mght de
f the Emperor shoud eave our roof wthout beng
engaged to one of us. e w not have me, and,
after a, I cannot thrust mysef upon hm.
ut what w become of you, nna Pauna
I sad.
I sha marry, I suppose, when some one deems
t worth the rsk n order to become the brother-n-
aw of the Emperor of reneurech.
0h, nna Pauna, I cred. You w marry
wthout ove, wth your broken heart st beedng
I sha fuf my duty, Georgna, she sad, as
you must do yours. Good-nght. Let ths nter-
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stepped nto your chamber by nght. To-morrow I
mysef sha announce your engagement, and assure
every one that from the very begnnng the Emperor s
attentons were pad to you n secret.
ut ths s sheer hypocrsy, nna Pauna, I
ob|ected. I w have nothng of the knd. I was
not born to fasehood and Court ntrgues. I w
not take part n such nventons.
The aws of our ouse and the necessty of
behavng ke a the prnces of our rank must
hod your persona feengs n bondage, Georgna,
answered nna Pauna demurey and the at-
mosphere of dramatc ntensty seemed suddeny
dspeed, though the moonght s sadness st
streamed n abundanty, though we were both st
waverng ke trembng reeds over the dark and
swft waters of our destnes a mrror as back
as Erebus to our eyes. ut when nna Pauna
says, 0ur ouse, our rank, our dynasty, unwttng
that we are qute petty prncesses, and that our
nhertance s one of a terrbe possbty ony,
that we are poor and forsaken by most of the
prnces of our parentage, Cousn rederc beng an
e cepton when nna Pauna remembers we are
the daughters of the od-tme famed dngens, she
thnks nether of hersef nor of her darng sster
then no sef-sacrfce s too great a trbute to those
ustrous ancestors whose hstory s a boody and
terrbe record ndeed. nna Pauna had mentoned
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the dngens and our ouse and our rank, and
to her t setted the matter. I must marry the
Emperor of reneurech. he pressed me fondy
to her, and for one bref nstant I saw her sender
shouette crossng the moon-rays, then I heard the
rustng of her brocade de away aong the corrdor,
and the creepng sense of an a-powerfu sence
agan fed my beng. . . .
0h that maddenng sence whose fetters t s so
easy to break Coud I, I thought, but f ts
frghtfu vastness wth one ong, unrestraned shrek,
ke the shreks that come from mother s room when
we, when she has one of her headaches The
desre to send that shrek out nto the vast e panse
of moonshne, foage and water fed my vens and
beat aganst my heart. I opened the wndow, and
nto the whte nght my voce rose n wd scream
after scream. 0h, rauen, t was wrong, but I fet
as f an unknown monster was at work wth my voce,
cang to monsters aseep n forest, torrent and
gade. My head coud no onger bear ts knotted
oad, and I unfastened my har, aowng the ong
trang ve of god to hang out of the wndow and
t seemed as f my har were become a goden star-
case on whose steps anges and sprts dre and
brant ever ascended and descended n confused
muttudes. hrek after shrek t the eaves of
the forest trembed, t my body swayed and my
bran grew dzzy, and then t was that I fet mother s

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arms around me, and I saw her weepng, and
rauen L was bathng my tempes and assurng
mother that the Emperor sept so far from our
apartments that he coud not have heard me.
Then I sank nto a sweet sumber, and I dreamed
a dream whch you must never forget, 0 rauen,
because I fancy that n some way the dream must
come true n after years. I dreamed that I ay n a
barge whose prow and rudder and foor and masts
were covered wth ovey moss-roses, and I, n a
mante made of moss-rose petas, wth a sceptre of
moss-roses n my hands, gazed wth enchanted eyes,
whe the barge gded down a sunny wde rver.
Ctes far, gardens, and gracefu cathedras, crowds
that threw roses at me as I passed, castes whose
towers geamed warm n the summer ar, rose on a
sdes, and cheers and fowers accompaned me, whe
gay marners saw the rose-cooured water drop from
the rose-covered rudders, and brdges made a of
roses formed trumpha arches above our heads. ut
as the twght sowy set n, one by one the roses
drooped and fe from mast and prow nto the
darkened stream. The crowds and ctes and the
gay song of the marners faded away, and paaces
back and hgh, dungeons envroned by wd forests,
whence came the desoate sound of buges and horns,
mrrored ther menacng contours n the rver. My
sceptre was no more than a staff of thorns, and my
thorny mante weghed so that the crue ponts
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entered my fesh. nd I saw a man s shadow e
at my feet. ucky the shadow vanshed, and aso
the andscape, and I saw my own form yng out-
stretched n the boat, and heard peope around
whsper, he s the Empress of reneurech, and
he has ked her. Pease, dear rauen, do
remember my dream, a thng I sha probaby not
do mysef, as new obgatons, new dutes, and, dare
I say, new |oys are pourng n on me.
you be the best and kndest of rauens,
and become a member of my househod when I am
n rena It appears I sha be surrounded by
any number of ades, but I want some one from
dngen to stand by me. he I am very happy
about gong, I am at tmes oppressed by a dreadfu
meanchoy, and I cannot bear the dea of not havng
wth me my rauen whom I ove and who, I know,
oves me. rauen L s very nce now, and
decares she has aways been most attached to me.
I have asked her aso to accompany me to rena,
athough, of course, the very frst pace n my prvate
servce sha ever be for you.
Georgna.
rauen L to rauen T0ptz.
Dear rauen Toptz,
ow me to congratuate you on the happy
event, the event whch makes us a so |oyfu.
Prncess Georgna s so ovey and so good, and of
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course we never e pected poor Prncess nna
Pauna to be equa to the brant poston whch
her sster w certany adorn. I know how deepy
the future Empress s attached to you, and as er
Poya ghness has degned to choose my humbe
sef as thrd handmad, and as I am to accompany
her to rena, w you, dear and honoured rauen
Toptz, promse to protect and defend me I am
but a poor fororn gr, unworthy of your notce, but
your goodness s we known to a, and I fee sure
that you w ook after one who s respectfuy
devoted to you.
L randt.
L randt to Mrs. tty randt.
Dear Mother,
I have managed so we that the Emperor s
change of mnd brngs no change n my prospects.
er Poya ghness, whose favour I dd not possess,
as I had devoted mysef competey to that sy
Prncess, nna Pauna, n a word, Prncess
Georgna s now qute charmed wth my merts, and
I accompany her to rena. Unfortunatey, that
horrd rauen Toptz, to whom the future Empress
s attached, w doubtess now try to rue the
househod, and rauen Toptz does not ke me.
ut she s no match for your daughter L, and
aready the Emperor s frst ammer-Dener s makng
eyes at me. e s a quet young man, and shoud
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prove an easy nstrument n my hands. o the od
cat Toptz w be outwtted and, before ne t year
s over, sent away from the Impera Court n rena.
Trust me and my sk, mother. I sha pay pussy
wth her, and treat her respectfuy. ut hush
even my pen may have ears.
The Prncess nna Pauna cres her eyes out
when n the prvacy of her room, but puts on a decent
eau-de-Coogne-bathed face n pubc. er sster s
beautfu cod, dangerousy cod to the Emperor
and he 0h, Mother, a more nfatuated over I have
never seen. I am peased to say there s no fuss
made over the Prncess nna Pauna, and she s a
prudent gr not to make hersef wearsome. Dd I
ever te you before how nspd I fnd her
ffectonatey your devoted daughter,
L.
Prnce Ethebert of reneurech (Unce of
Emperor Matthew and the Duchess of dngen,
and God-father of Prncess Georgna) to hs on,
Prnce |oachm.
My on,
The announcement of your strange be-
havour at the 0pera ast evenng has nether
surprsed nor angered me. Your mother was a
ady most bewderng n manners and conduct.
or ten years I had to ca on her dressed as a knght
of the Mdde ges a rdcuous fgure enough and
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on such occasons my frend, Doctor chute, and
my devoted servant, ans, were aone the wtnesses
of the grotesque necessty mposed on me by the
Duchess of dngen, my awfu wfe. That you
resembe your mother wth her curous doctrnes
and deas I can no onger doubt. You have gven
serous offence to a kng s daughter, and beed the
e ceent educaton I contrved to force upon one
whose every nstnct rebeed aganst earnng. I
aways knew you woud prove naught but an -
traned Impera cub, but I am obged to acknowedge
you are, moreover, heartess, crue as any Caracaa
or eogabaus, and such a foo
ow you to marry that woman ut I am not
the head of the famy, |oachm. You must appy
to Matthew, who s n ove, and perhaps kndy
dsposed towards overs, whatever they may be.
The Emperor seems we accustomed to your evty
he even forgave you the famous eap over a coffn
n the streets of rena he may possby fnd that
to eap over conventonaty and precedent and the
sver coffns of a thousand emperors, your ancestors,
s an acton not much more to be reprmanded than
that ustrous deed of yours when you stopped the
funera processon, and spurred your mare to a mad
feat, worthy of our nsane forefathers n pan. I
suppose the faut es wth me. I shoud not have
marred a prncess beongng to the dngen set.
No doubt I am responsbe for most of the ms-
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fortune that has happened to me through you,
my son.
t any rate, I have my pctures and statues and
fne vases, whose quet sumber has been haowed
by the dampness of many ustrous tombs and
vauts, and whch w ever save me from the grefs
you are contrvng to brng down on my od age.
The wne of fe st bos n my vens. s ong as
one can en|oy the peasures that come from art and
nature, one s young. I have entered nto the cyce
of the mmortas by the wde and sunt gates of art,
and you are enterng nto the cyce of torment by
the famng gates of foy.
I suppose you beeve Lna Marna oves you.
oosh boy, can t you see that actresses have spent,
n apeng gestures before the pubc, the power to
ove and hate that death tsef has ost ts
grandeur to them who e on death-beds and make
dyng speeches and sng dyng anthems wth
magnary spears n ther fesh, and who are carred
away as magnary corpses, amost every evenng of
ther ves hat are ksses to them whose ps
bestow the bessed gfts on the ps of ndfferent and,
sometmes, repeng men nd ther arms how
can arms have the warmth of a true ove-casp that
have embraced hundreds of overs and been the
arms of |uet to Pomeos of a knds
way wth the ove of actresses, my son. I w
never ca the woman my daughter who has been
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the daughter of fshermen wth panted faces, of mock
tyrants and fase kngs, and so-dsant scoundres.
No truth, no truth, not one snge atom of reaty can
be found n the eyes of an actress, nor n her heart.
he hersef s not aware of the dstance that
separates her rea sef from the personages she
assumes, and she nevtaby steps over the sght
ne of demarcaton, and s ever confusng her own
sentments wth the sentments whch she must
voce wth as much vehemence as f she fet them. I
pty and despse the whoe ot, |oachm. It s not
hard to understand why, n bygone centures, whch
n many ways were more enghtened than ours,
peope refused hoy bura-ground to actors, men and
women who n ther fetme had abandoned ther
own sous and senses, empted ther bengs of
persona feengs, to eave space for the feengs they
mmcked.
Do as you ke, provded the Emperor does not
oppose the match. rte to hm. I cannot keep
my temper, and any word I mght thrust nto the
matter woud probaby prove a stumbng-bock to
your wshes and those of the gnora or gnorna
one never knows whether these women are Mrs. or
Mss, and whether the orange-bossoms e hdden
behnd ther rght or ther eft ear. They are ke
the amphba, and ve by turns n the water of open
mmoraty or on the contnent of matrmony. I
suppose you w enabe Lna Marna to set a frm
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foot on the safer ground of a morganatc unon I
need not repeat the reasons of my averson to
morganatc matches. Even to Lna Marna and her
ke such a marrage shoud appear worthy of the
prmeva ambton of her se , whose every effort,
from the Deuge downwards, has been to rase
femnne prveges to the heght of mascune
pretensons.
I am |ust buyng an admrabe Perugno. You
mght step n to congratuate me on the purchase
and bd farewe, a ong farewe to my coecton.
Your father s museum as we as your father s heart
w cose on you, and for ever gates of ron whch
no morta hand w open f you marry the
amphban.
Ethebert.
|ohanna, Prncess of noaga, to her ster,
Prncess 0va.
Estaa.
Dear 0va,
Your etter has not n the east surprsed
or dsapponted me, but poor hema s n tears.
he aready saw you the wfe of Prnce |oachm of
reneurech, a future empress perhaps (Georgna
may reman chdess, after a), and f words coud
k, the sy nfatuaton of that |ob, Count Guo,
woud be short-ved. o you are comng back
Prncess 0va of ngaga, and I cannot but
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re|oce that you are spared enterng a famy of such
tragc destnes.
0va, has any one ever tod you how many tmes
you have vsted ths panet before your brth, and
under how many dfferent forms, and the crmes you
have commtted, and the fne deeds acheved by one
who was your own sef, and yet not your own sef,
I know not how many thousand years ago ut
uness you purfy your mnd and body, and aow
the hgher sprtuaty to dwe n your sou, you w
not be abe to remember other than momentary
those phases of your bygone e stences whose
e paton, punshment or recompense e wth you
now. I am workng and earnng, and some day
may acheve the spendd vctory of reveang to
mysef my remote ves. I am ke a fower that
searches for ts roots and the orgn of ts perfumes.
Dear 0va, you are rght not to ament because
that woman, the handsome actress, s to marry
Prnce |oachm n your stead. They had met
before, and ther ove s but an act of recognton, a
|oyfu meetng after a ong absence. You coud not
part those two happy sous. th many wshes for
the deveopment. . . .
|ohanna.
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Prncess hema of ngaga to her ster,
Prncess 0va.
Estaa.
Dear 0va,
hy does not mother return The sooner
she resumes the rens of her kngdom and the contro
of |ohanna, the better for us a. That chd
|ohanna s absoutey out of her senses. I am afrad
she must be the tak of Court and town by ths
tme. er actons are scarcey ess grotesque than
the started ooks of the peope on whom she
avshes her confdence. he now pretends that,
owng to strct det and hgh-strung, eevated thought,
she has receved a reveaton from above, and that n
a former e stence she was a came-drver. here
the cames she drove now are, and transformed nto
what creatures, remans an engma but I can see
what she w be drven to, and what |ohn Grey, the
bonde archange, s drvng at. Papa s over head
and ears n hs dutes of Prnce Consort, that s to
say, he receves every one of the offcas of the
kngdom, n the desre that no one shoud gve
credence to the statement that the Prnce Consort s
the very ast man to whom peope n any emergency
whatever shoud appy, that the Prnce Consort s
but dust and ashes, etc. 0h, mother shoud be at
home. he s strong-mnded and strong-tongued.
he w swear at |ohanna, and reduce |ohn Grey to
a handfu of sand, and |ohanna s cames too.
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Lna Marna s portrats are sod at the corners of
our prncpa streets. Notorety s easy ganed.
ut, reay, how coud the Emperor consent to the
marrage That morganatc wretch w creep nto
Georgna s ntmacy. e are tod that Georgna,
though haughty and devod of kndness, takes to
vugar peope, and she w probaby fee attracted
by stage gamour and stage curtseys. hat can be
e pected of a dngen but strange tastes
Mamma has set my cap at the Emperor of Mosta
he s seventy-two, and a confrmed wdower.
L ELM .
Prncess |ohanna of ngaga to Mr. |ohn
Grey.
Estaa.
Dear Mr. Grey,
I am most unhappy to have mssed the
opportunty of seeng you, but, as you are aware, the
Paace grounds are open to the pubc on undays,
and we generay spend the haowed day n the
country. ad I known that you woud be amongst
the vstors to our gardens, I certany shoud not
have eft town. s t s, we were together n a
sprtua way the whoe of the afternoon yesterday,
and whe I wrte I fee your presence. You have
opened the Gates of Eternty to me my sou has
grown n ght and strength snce the umnous
moment of our frst meetng. You were standng by
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the sea, and, ke Pato, ecturng to a throng of
youths whose faces e pressed the hope and |oy you
had awakened, whe words of mmorta portent fe
from your ps ke moonbeams on tred waves. I
can remember yet what you were sayng to them :
Pase yourseves ever hgher n the scae of human
bengs, you sad. ak wth hands and eyes
upfted. ever not the sver nk that bnds a sou
to ts dfferent e stence. Pe-embodment s ke
unto the fe that returneth to a tree after ts wnter
sumber. nde and stmuate every one of your
facutes, t the nobest of them a takes the upper
hand and eads nstnct and reason, as the shepherd
eads the herd to green pastures. You caed down
on us the power of the Eterna prt that pervades
the nfnty of pace. nd then ft was that I asked
you to become my frend and to gude me. nd do
you remember what you answered, |ohn Grey
Yes, I w gude thee, gente sou, gente mad,
whoever thou prove to be, a kng s daughter or the
wfe of a poor fsherman. nd I was sent, and we
waked aong the beach, across the goden sands.
nd you ponted to the runs of those tempes
whose antque gory st sends a thr through
muttudes ke spras of snow-whte smoke ther
coumns rse unthwarted by Tme and you ponted
to them, and sad, The gods and goddesses whose
radance dwet amdst those marbes are gone, and
have sunk deep nto the earth or rotted n the sea.

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The song of srens, whose perous charm ensnared
the hearts of heroes, s no onger heard. ut gods
and goddesses are ave n thousands, not n shrnes
of spendour, not n sanctuares where god and
|ewes shmmer, but n the sou of man, yea, n every
sou that reves n the sunght and dreams under
the moon. e are a dvne, or have n us the
capacty for becomng detes and parts of the
upreme Dety.
th puse beatng wth a feversh e ataton I
returned to the Paace that day, and asked my
father to aow me to receve you here, a permsson
whch mother woud not have easy granted.
ortunatey, father has become as nterested n
you as mysef, and wth hs persona frends the
ueen sedom or never nterferes. o we sha
see much of each other f you spend the wnter n
Estaa.
I am to be found every mornng n the runed
gaery of Dana s tempe. I ove Dana and every-
thng that recas her cod and magca nfuence.
Dd you say Constantnope was the cty of the
crescent even before Mahomet II and before the
yzantne Empre the cty of the moon ow
strange and aurng
Your predcton has turned nto a reaty. My
sster s not betrothed to the Prnce of reneurech.
nd when I reca the dreadfu thngs that must
come to pass n the Impera famy, I re|oce that
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our tmd, gente and pretty 0va s safe, and has
eft rena ths mornng.
|ohanna.
|ohn Grey to the Prncess |ohanna.
Dear Prncess,
Most gratefuy do I thank you for the
gracous etter. I am a unworthy of your knd
apprecaton. I am but the too chosen by your
sprtua facutes for ther further deveopment.
spraton, e hortaton and prayer can brng mraces
to pass. I have been abe to reach your sou
because, through the desre of gettng more and
more ght, your sou became easy of approach.
I congratuate you on that happy event, your
sster s reease from an engagement to a young
prnce beongng to the ouse of dngen. or
centures the ouse of dngen has been scourged
by ev sprts. s I tod you, ev sprts are sous
reeased from the bondage of the fesh, yet not
unmaterazed, and they cng to the atmosphere of
ther former ncarnaton, and generay they succeed
n enterng a sane body and nfestng the sane mnd
that nhabts that body. Thus t s wth the uck-
ess dngens. Ther ancestors who have proved
nsane or crmna pounce upon them sooner or
ater, and force them to commt the same crmes as
of yore and to undergo the same angush. Thus
woud your sster s chdren, and the chdren of her
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chdren, have contnued the fata record. ataty,
the work of hatred and maedctons, od anathema
whose power brngs run, are thus e paned. The
truths that I am now tryng to convey to you w
soon take root n your mnd, and never after fa you.
Love of truth and of the Infnte s but the e panson
of a heathy ove of ourseves, as we are the Infnte
Truth emanatng from the Infnte eng. I sha
ever be deghted to meet you, and sha ca on the
Prnce your father to-morrow, at 2 p.m.
|ohn Grey.
Prncess 0va of ngaga to her ster,
Prncess hema.
rena.
Dear hema,
e are eavng rena n a few hours,
after what the rench woud ca a ateroo, and
the ustrans a adowa. Mother s nfurated, and
I am now qute sure that Doctor chute s bengnant
whte curs are not hs own, for he kept such cose
watch on hs head whe recevng from ueen
0rtrude one of those corps-de-garde scodngs of hers
whose fame, I truy beeve, has rendered her amost
redoubtabe. he used the strongest anguage that
even a dctonary of ussars coud contan. nd
oh hema, the Doctor s teeth chattered n hs
head so that they seemed on the pont of breakng
off and he spread hs beard and made a whte
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basket of t, so that f the teeth had dropped nto
the beard they coud have rested n ts depths. nd
he sad repeatedy, moanng and even howng the
words, Most honoured ueen, 0 great ueen
but hs cres never got the better of mother s trebe,
the e asperated trebe of her worst days. hat she
sad of Prnce |oachm and the Impera famy of
reneurech and ther defects, vces, compants,
msdeeds, mshaps, dsgraces, I coud not repeat, nor
do I care to remember. he caed |oachm a tpsy
|onkherr, Lna Marna an awfu word, the future
Empress a canddate for edam, the Emperor a
drty monkey, the Duchess of dngen and Prnce
Ethebert swnders.
he openy decared she knew that Prnce Ethe-
bert had made a secret contract wth a |ew who
pretends to se fase masterpeces of art, at a hgh
prce, to the Prnce, and once they get nto the
Prnce s museum and become we known, the Prnce
ses them for the hghest prce he can get, and the
bargan made wth the |ew proves a good thng for
both. 0f course ths s an utter absurdty, and
Prnce Ethebert does not deserve such treatment
at mother s hands. Prnce Ethebert s a |oy,
cever, cynca od feow, who quotes Dante, rs-
tophanes and Mton n the same breath, consders
every speck of antque dust worth a pound of fesh,
s not n the east ambtous nor proud, scoffs at
court etquette and stngs hs son wth wtty arrows for
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hs conduct and the stage dy wth Lna Marna.
h had Prnce |oachm resembed hs father
I woud regret a broken-off match wth Prnce
Ethebert, whereas |oachm never took my fancy
even for one bref moment.
ut I must return to Doctor chute. y a
mrace hs wg and fase teeth stuck n ther
paces. Doctor chute s a genus. Twce dd
mother s roya fsts come amost nto contact wth
the deprecatng shouders, and twce the Doctor
succeeded n changng hs terror-strcken gesture
nto one of deep respect at the thrd attack, the
humbe prostrate form unbent and rose to fu
heght, and wth a sbyne ar the Doctor e camed,
Madam, Your Ma|esty s wrath s |ust, and I fee
ndgnant wth mysef for havng trespassed on
Your Ma|esty s prveges both as mother and as
queen. Tread me to atoms, burn me to ashes, and
I sha deserve both fates. Your Ma|esty may we
be angry wth her humbe but guty servant. I
have preferred the honour of an Empre to the
persona happness of a young prncess whose every
sme s as a harbnger of sprng. ut the Emperor
of Mtraw was so keen on the dea of gettng a far
empress, and Prncess 0va seems so ftted to
grace a throne, that I dd not refect The Emperor,
though not much above thrty, mght prove a grave
and even unbendng husband. tupd, stupd that
I am nd the man gave hs chest and brow the
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bows that he had euded from the ueen. tupd
od rasca Thou art ever the same unconsconabe
dot. Thou hast worked n the dark, worked to
destroy the marrage between |oachm and 0va,
between the beauteous Prncess and the wayward
Prnce thou hast ost thy wretched senses, od man,
and gven thysef up to the cause of thy Impera
frend thou hast been moved by the sudden ove
born n the Emperor s heart at the sght of a
portrat, and Lna Marna must needs don the
morganatc orange-bossom. Lna Marna earnt
from thee the art of wes and gue, through thy
w aone dd |oachm wsh to make that actress hs
wfe, and now the scaes that couded thy stupd
eyes e at thy feet, Doctor chute. The Prncess
0va w not consent to become the Emperor
Leone s wfe. The Emperor s beneath the daughter
of ueen 0rtrude. No parvenu conqueror deserves
a wfe from a ne countng ts descent by ages. h,
Doctor chute, Doctor chute, for a few knd nes n
an emperor s hand, for god, thou, vest of mortas,
hast betrayed a great queen nd Doctor chute,
overwhemed by the caamtes he had brought upon
hmsef, broke down and fe nto the depths of a
huge arm-char, hs beard quverng and wet wth
tears, hs bony hands pressed aganst hs tempes.
Then a thng happened whch I have never
wtnessed before. Crossng the chamber wth hasty
steps, her kerchef dspayed ke a banner, wth
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Vakyre grace and swftness, the ueen fe on
her knees besde the arm-char where Doctor chute
sobbed and whmpered. he took those awfu hands
of hs between her ong, dsdanfu rngers, and sad,
Dear, knd frend, now, who has ever before won
that epthet from er Ma|esty dearest and
kndest of frends, do not weep Do not greve.
how me the Emperor s etter. In my breast-
pocket, sobbed the od heron and he searched n
van for the mssng paper, and drew out nstead a
huge par of green spectaces, a yeow kerchef and
an empty purse. Mother took the purse and fed
t wth the god cons she aways keeps n the sken
bag at her wast.
Now, mother s bag s arge, and the purse ooked
sma, yet the dmnutve eather thng swaowed
up the contents of the bag ke a hungry mouth,
and t st ooked empty. Mother thrust the purse
on the Doctor s knee ndgnanty he threw t on
the ground, and t fe not far from the arm-char,
whe mother went on: Dear Doctor, wrte to the
Emperor. 0va s such a nce, smpe gr, and
she deghts n serous peope. he s not over-
merry hersef. rte nstanty, and arrange some
pace of meetng. I can put off my return to Estaa.
The Prnce Consort does not nterfere wth the
government, and my pen rues we, even at a
dstance. Do wrte.
No, no, Madam, answered the weepng monster
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no, no, I am too awkward, too humbe for such an
august task. I shoud not know how to word my
etter.
Mother s eyes sparked. I w dctate t to you,
dear Doctor. No, don t move. ere, 0va, hep
me. e w not dsturb Doctor chute. ere,
take the other end of ths tabe. nd we both
carred a wrtng-tabe n front of the od man s
arm-char, and mother woud you beeve t
arranged the cushon that propped hm, and bathed
hs tempes and hands wth eau-de-Coogne.
The od rasca went on puffng and sghng ke
a beows. e ooked the most hdeous pece of
anatomy you can magne. In my mnd there was
no doubt as to hs determnaton not to wrte that
etter I fet that the Emperor Leone s proposa
was pure fcton. ut I fet curousy bound to
foow Doctor chute s movements, and to watch n
what way he woud creep out of hs dffcuty. e
ay entanged n the network. e groaned and
groaned agan, and made efforts to open hs wast
coat and oosen hs cravat but whst hs eft hand
was thus engaged, I coud see hs rght hang down
to the carpet and steathy cutch the dsdaned
eather purse. Louder and ouder he groaned, and
through hs cenched teeth hs breath came out n
a thck, hssng way, t the ueen became qute
dstressed. e s fantng God, he s dyng
gasped she. 0va dear, rng qucky and
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she once more poured the perfumed eau-de-Coogne
on to hs beard and eyebrows, t he sneezed, a
sound whch mother mstook for a morta symptom.
he foowed me to the door, and I suppose he took
advantage of our turned backs and thrust the purse
nto hs pocket, because when we returned to fnd
hm st prostrate n the arm-char, the eather
purse had dsappeared.
Chamberans, mads and servants now fed the
room. Doctor chute Doctor chute My
mother shook the od mass of decet t I coud
hear the cnk of cons n hs pocket but the ueen
pad no attenton to anythng but the gurgng
sounds that ssued from the sonorous chest.
Take me home, take me home he muttered.
e s recoverng conscousness now e speaks
Thank God sad my mother.
Take me home The request was now renewed
n a pressng, ptfu voce, as through hs haf-cosed
ds chute had perceved our Court doctor, whose
cear, honest face was pae wth concern and an ety
at beng so hurredy summoned. Take me home
take me home
group of servants approached, rased Doctor
chute n hs arm-char on to ther stawart shouders
and thus, wth feebe moans and that ugy sound of
god accompanyng hm, chute made a part-trum-
phant, part-rdcuous, part-pathetc e t from the
ueen s apartments. nd one of the footmen tod
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my mad that he sprang to hs feet as soon as he
reached the gates of hs house, and that a sme of
reef and satsfacton then and there setted on hs
features. e had not wrtten that etter to the
Emperor, after a
0ur Court doctor was st dscussng wth mother
the probabtes of chute beng menaced wth
sudden death through heart-dsease, when a note
from the dyng man arrved, thankng the ueen for
her goodness, and teng er Ma|esty that, the
perous emergency beng over, he had on the spot
sent er Ma|esty s message to the foregn soveregn
who s n ove wth Prncess 0va. Mother amost
shreked wth grattude and |oy. he kssed me, and
caed me ovey Empress, and advsed me to
prove as coquettsh and gay on my frst meetng wth
Emperor Leone as I was when I met Count Guo.
Now, notce that mother has never before mentoned
Count Guo to me nd she added that |ohanna
woud soon become an empress aso, by marryng
the od wdower, who certany must ong for a demure
and pous wfe. 0ur dear |ohanna s somewhat of
a mystc, and the Prnce wrtes that a very remark-
abe professor of regon, an mercan, s at present
busy wth the wefare of our gr s sou. I hear, sad
the ueen, that |ohn Grey s venerabe and
austere. I fet bound not to contradct mother
though t s hard to magne how a young student wth
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uch was her |oy over Dr. chute s etter, I thnk
mother woud have reveaed a her pans and hopes
to me then and there but for the entrance of a
smart ade-de-camp. You know, dear sster, that we
occupy the eft wng of the Impera Paace n
rena Impera fortress t mght be caed : towers,
turrets, stone starcases, quant corrdors, antque
vauted rooms, has where the sprt of the Mdde
ges st ngers, an nnumerabe number of unten-
anted chambers, n addton to the apartments, rchy
furnshed, but st goomy and beneath the rght
wng, whch the Emperor of reneurech nhabts, a
knd of dark cave open to wnd and snow, and n
whch, nght and day, are vsbe beneath the fame
of torches the dm outnes of an empty coffn, guarded
on each sde by ta soders n armour, wth naked
swords. Mystery, a knd of sacred grandeur, awe
and horror a ths renders the Impera ortress a
pace haunted wth an atmosphere as dark and for-
bddng as ts past hstory. I do not envy the ovey
Prncess of dngen, who w earn n ths paace
how heavy the crown of reneurech can e on her
wonderfu har. 0h, I envy not Prncess Georgna.
. . . nd the etquette that sways ths Court s
terrbe ts force, unsuspected yet ever present, must
wther the fowers of youthfu magnaton and tant
at ther source the we-sprngs of nnocent |oy. It
throws a mante of oppresson over every desre, as
the pagan prests of our own country rased ther
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fery mantes over the faterng steps of those who
were doomed to receve ther soemn anathemas.
the tme-worn habts that made the pansh
Court famous survve here. nd t s nterestng to
note how not one of the modern deas so arduousy
taken up n the town of rena has penetrated nto
the Paace. Pre|udce s the st unconquered
vctor. nd the dngens are wd grs ac-
customed to en|oy berty, out-of-door fe, and
art.
ut to return to the Emperor. The smart ade-
de-camp s errand was of no sma mportance, as he
asked where t mght be er Ma|esty s peasure to
receve the Emperor of reneurech. Mother made
a ready and gracous answer, and when I refected
what an ordea the Emperor s vst mght have
proved under other crcumstances, I fet amost
gratefu to Doctor chute. You know mother
she takes speca vews of her materna dutes, and
not ony does she avsh on us a the warmth of her
generous heart, but aso a her ambtous desgns.
he shoud be enenty |udged, for she s a thorough
queen-mother. he possesses a remarkabe sens-
bty, a conscentousness marked by beautfu trats,
but ony n the part of a mother and a queen. The
tme w come when peope who are started by her
rough manners, and who pay upon her creduty by
strrng the soe chords that vbrate n her heart
must earn to revere and admre her as much as
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father has done from the very frst. he possesses,
moreover, a consttutona unftness for vng the
smaer events of fe, those n whch her doube
sentmenta rde s n no way concerned. er
daughters, the wefare of her peope, f n the whoe
space of ookng-gass perspectve n whch her e st-
ence s mrrored. mong the vsbe evdences of
ths s her readness to beeve mpcty that the
greatest possbtes may ever be open to her
daughters, that the naton over whose destnes she
presdes s the one naton n the word worthy of the
Creator s attenton. Then, the muttude of photo-
graphs yng around her, on tabes, chars and foor
a heap, a maaya of photographs, not one of whch
does not represent her chdren n every perod of
nfancy and youth, or ngagan andscapes, vews
of Estaa, her shps, the sea, the mountans, the poets,
the potca men of our natve and. . . . nd she
s ndfferent about everythng ese catacysms or
vctores n other parts of the word than ngaga do
not nterest her. Marrage w cease to be a soca
nsttuton, and egbe prnces w no onger form
the most promnent feature n Europe on the day we
are a provded wth thrones, handsome or cever
husbands, fne paaces and a tran of spendd courters.
You may pcture to yoursef how the Emperor of
reneurech woud have been confronted wth hs
own and Prnce |oachm s msdeeds but for that wy
suggeston of Doctor chute and the smng effgy
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of the meanchoy Emperor Leone n the background
of our present matrmona faure.
The Emperor have I ever descrbed hm to you
s very young, very far, very sender, very decate
n features, n manners he reves n the veres.
hs quates are mnor but e cessve: farness,
decacy, courtesy wthout mport hs bonde skn
s often traversed by bushes through hs soft bonde
whskers hs under p s a hstorca feature a
thck, uncouth proof that he ndeed beongs to a race
famed for grandeur and decadence. ut for the
hstorca pout, the Emperor resembes most of the
offcers whom we day meet n the streets of rena,
s approachng marrage stands uppermost n hs
mnd. Mother found approprate terms to e to
Georgna s e traordnary good ooks, her ceverness,
her grace. The Emperor s n ove, wth a bg L.
e tod us that the brde woud sa to the capta
n a barge covered wth moss-roses. Not a snge
auson dd he make to nna Pauna. ut he
moved hs pumed headgear uncomfortaby between
hs fngers when I mentoned that I had often heard
Georgna s fne musca nstncts prased by those
who knew her. I suppose art and madness prove
synonymous wth the dngens, and that uckess
and strange feow, ng rederc, eads the dance of
unatcs.
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off he s not ntegent, but remarkaby tactfu.
Mother fet rather embarrassed when he nqured
whether we ntended to return to Estaa. e now
depend whoy on Doctor chute s decson, or
rather, on the dctates of the meanchoy monarch on
whom the honour of becomng my husband w be
thrust. The Emperor of reneurech dd he do t
on purpose smngy asserted that there woud be
more than one Poya weddng n the course of ths
year, and that the Emperor Leone woud soon eave
hs Court n search of a wfe. as ths a hnt, or an
attempt at proptatng mother, whose good graces
the Emperor of reneurech probaby fet he had
ost through hs cousn s behavour e stayed on
and on t twght, t the yeow fames of the hgh
tapers that stand around hs coffn took a du red
hue and shed ugubrous ght nto the room n whch
we were seated. Lke an omen of bood the rays
were refected from a bg opa n a rng of du god
on the young soveregn s ungoved hand. e ponted
to the rng. Georgna gave t me, he sad softy.
It s my betrotha rng.
I have no dea what sort of pace we are gong to
Doctor chute sad somewhere n the tyran
mountans. nd I was so deghted to be off wth
Prnce |oachm, and here I am on wth the unknown
potentate I suppose we sha stay n rena two
days onger, t a arrangements are made by Doctor
chute. My beef remans unatered that Emperor
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Leone has no dea of the bss that s beng prepared
for hm. The morganatc wretch, Lna Marna, has
gven notce of her decson to eave the stage. ut
there s gong to be a bg functon at the 0pera n
honour of the new Empress Georgna, and the
Emperor desres hs betrothed to hear her future
cousn the actress, before the atter snks nto the
rosy sem-obscurty of a prnce s haf-spouse. I am
osng mysef n a abyrnth of feengs, and am haf
frghtened to fnd that I ove ts ntrcaces. Count
Guo s now ony an abstracton n my thoughts,
the symbo of the reaty whom one mght ove, were
Prncesses aowed to ove and the meanchoy
Emperor s mage brngs to fe curousy entanged
hopes of happness. ut have we prncesses the rght
to e pect happness, or, f we happen to possess t, to
e pect to keep t
utumn, n vestments of amber, treads the gardens
and forests round rena. e are not used to the
sound of fang eaves, to the msty spendour shed
over trees and fowers by the touch of death. In
our and, whose mountans are marbe and whose
aure boughs never ruste wth the murmur of
decay, we under-vaue the gamour that es n
adeu and about the tomb. 0ur runs are stones
so gorous that the centures gde over them.
Everythng wthn our antque shores seems to take
hod of mmortaty. ere, fe and the oss of fe
are the heart of every moment.
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Is |ohanna st taken up wth her phosopher s
theores he coud never be enamoured but n
the abstract.
0va.
Doctor chute to gnorna Lna Marna.
rena.
Gnadge rau,
May I gve you a hnt, and even good
advce The confdence you gave me must never
be shared by any other morta. I w hep you.
To-morrow you sha see your ngona for the ast
tme. e brave, gnadge rau. The chd, an ange
ndeed, w be cared for and happy. 0ccasonay,
through your humbe servant, news w reach you
of her wefare. ueen 0rtrude s knd, the cmate
of ngaga e ceent, and the three Prncesses
reguar hgh-bred types of what the rench ca
a vrae grande dame, and the Engsh a ady. Tear
up ths etter. . . .
Doctor chute to Doctor Gusner, Drector of
the Lunatc syum n 0cees.
Dear Doctor Gusner,
nd s your patent reay gettng on
better I can scarcey beeve t. The memory
of the nervous shock I sustaned from my sster s
sharp attacks, whose frequent recurrence forced me
to send her away from our home a few years ago,
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st makes me shudder. I coud never ve under
the same roof wth her agan and then your earned
coeagues whom I consuted n Pars are postve as
to the mpossbty of her ever reganng her menta
equbrum. That haucnaton as to her condton
and her own personaty seems to me an absoute
proof that her santy s rretrevaby gone. how
her every possbe kndness. Make no effort to
defend me when she abuses me, whose soe am t
s to render her sad fate somewhat ghter. It s
sad to be characterstc of nsane persons that they
hate the peope whom they most chershed, so I
suppose I must try to fee resgned.
I may pay you a fyng vst to 0cees one of these
days. I have been ntroduced to our future Empress,
the oveest and most charmng, and most amabe
and gfted prncess n Europe.
L ELM C ULTE.
Prncess hema of ngaga to her ster,
Prncess 0va.
Estaa.
nd what s our new ectrce ke I ove her
name, ngona de Pandetto, but somehow the fact
that she s recommended by that pet of yours,
Doctor chute, does not pease me. nd you say
she s an orphan. Untre es bras de Deu asse ds
sa nassance eft snce her brth between the arms
of God. nd s she pretty rea beauty woud
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not do, nor a frght ether. Pemember how ashamed
Mademosee osca s panness made us when we
had to ask her to recte a poem or a page from
omer, and how we wondered that even over-tred
Uysses dd not fy on the spot from a Nauscaa wth
such an appangy red and huge nose.
thunderbot, 0va, somethng unheard-of
neffaby new and strange and marveous and
eatng Put every ad|ectve under the sun to-
gether |ugge them together ather s n
open opposton to mother the Prnce Consort
bauks the ueen, and unfurs the standard of
rebeon I haf e pected the moon to fa rght
nto my pate of strawberres on the terrace yester-
day evenng, when he decared to |ohanna and me
that he woud never accept a son-n-aw beongng
to the famy of the great Conqueror, the great
condotter and court burgar, added father, wth a
grow. nd has not 0rtrude notced omnous
sgn : he dd not say the ueen that there s
not one among the soveregns of Europe who seeks
the honour of a matrmona aance wth Emperor
Leone No, I woud rather 0va shoud marry
beneath her, and become the duchess of a rea
duke, the countess of a rea ear. nd s not
Leone a rea emperor I ventured to nqure.
0va, I shoud ove to see you an empress, and
why shoud a Prncess von dngen outdo the
Prncess of ngaga Mother s pows are thorny
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snce that betrotha n Taarbruck. 0ne of us must
don an Impera crown, or mother w de. ather s
pre|udces aganst Leone are frm, but the ueen s
a wfu specmen of the Creator s bounty to s
creatures, and t s easer to reason wth a coud as
to ts form, and wth the wnd as to ts drecton,
than to dscuss wth her the ftness of ueen 0rtrude s
desres.
0va, I am afrad the second son of uevor s
meant for me. I am ony s teen, and he s not
yet twenty-two and he btes hs nas to the quck
hs teeth are the coour of moss-grown bark, hs
fngers grey wth the accumuated dust of months,
and I shoud say he never dsturbs the sweat
and grme that stcks to hs face, as the pro-
cess of washng s most dstastefu to one who
consders the human body an unhoy rag, and
abandons a care of the sad nusance. s atmo-
sphere waks haf-a-me ahead of hm, and herads
hs presence. ut he w succeed hs father, and be
a kng. There s an mped contract to keep cear
of sentmenta hobbes, a contract poor prncesses
have to sgn the moment that they enter ther teens
and become egbe. I shoud be sorry, 0va, f
anythng I sad to other young grs who are not
prncesses ever tended n any way to foster |eaousy
between professons, between the advantages be-
stowed by rank and the subter advantages en|oyed
by those who possess reatve berty.

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I hope ngona may prove ntegent and abe
to tak over wth us these thrng concerns of ours.
re we the daughters of Prometheus, and w that
untamed, huge brd of prey, ove, fasten ts caws n
our breasts I am feedng on the future, nor do I
even ook at the day food brought n to me by the
tame hands of the quet and commonpace. |ohanna
rees on a upreme Power, on the Infnte, the
formess, the paceess and I ook forward to a f ed
pont, and a we-defned form, whose contours, I m
sure, must aready e st, though as yet unreveaed.
ths etter fnd you n rena st, I wonder
Do brng ngona back wth you, or, f you go on
traveng much onger, send the gr to Estaa. I
ong for ratona companonshp. |ohanna soars up
to the vrgn wderness of panets. |ohn Grey
drects her fght. They te me they are preparng
themseves for a great e perment whose success
woud be the utmate proof of unversa mmortaty,
and pont to a process of re-embodment. . . .
The ueen of ngaga to Dr. chute.
Dear Doctor,
Is that pace n frca very quet and out-
of-the-way, and are you sure that the Emperor w
be there I sha consent to receve gnorna Lna
Marna, or, rather, to ask her to sng n my apart-
ments, when you demonstrate the rea necessty of
such a sacrfce. The gr, ngona, suts me n
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every way. he s quet, and not over-pretty.
There are tmes when one mght ca her pan, but
for those eyes of hers, wth ther hauntng, hungry
gaze. I wsh you woud ca at the Paace and ask
for admttance ths afternoon, between haf-past three
and four. I am gvng orders that you sha be
ushered n at once, wthout the Chamberan s
knowedge.
0rtrude, P.
P . 0va takes to ngona very much.
Dr. chute to gnora Lna Marna.
Yes, dear gnora, you sha get another gmpse
of your chd before she eaves for Estaa. ut frst
of a, you must promse not to betray yoursef.
ngona must reman gnorant of the near and
tender reatonshp that e sts between you. The
ueen of ngaga seems wng enough to see you,
not as the future morganatc spouse of Prnce
|oachm of reneurech, but as the prma donna
whose voce she greaty admres. Learn to under-
stand that on these shades, fastes and ncetes
depends the whoe frm archtecture of court fe.
chute.
Dr. chute to hs rother, Gaspard chute,
Country Doctor at chessen ( esa).
Dear rother,
I never encounter an obstace but I crush
t. The woman who s n a unatc asyum proved
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an obstace she s now wtherng, useess and n
obscurty, between was that her angry shreks can-
not penetrate and her fsts cannot beat down. I
know you, n your fne honesty, refuse to admre my
hghy wrought vany, but then we were born to
form contrasts, and snce you have chosen the straght
path, I must needs tread the crooked one. Yours s
more or ess unfrequented paths such as mne are
numerous as the vens n a human body, and crowded
amost to suffocaton. I have had to ebow my way,
and make room for mysef. You are an honest
feow on whom a the tepd tedousness of vrtue
es ke a feather, and not one tcke do you get from
the soft ornament. I am an awfu wretch. You
despse me, and I admre you, though I coud not
ve wthout the deep underground reverberatons of
my unsuspected crmes groanng vouptuousy under
my feet. I am an artst, brother, and you are an
artsan a quet, country physcan. You take the
poverty and gref of others upon yoursef you are
the ange of death-beds, the tender and naf nurse
of women and weakngs. You aduterate your
oathsome powders wth the ranbow sands of hope,
hepng poor foos to engthen out a cumbersome
e stence. You have not read Machave, nor reveed
n magnaton n the keen sensaton to be obtaned
from the gorous murders of the Itaan Penassance.
ths reads ke trash to you, but n my bood the
fabuous sea-serpent opens and coses ts azy rngs,
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a serpent that encrces and and sea, and has earnt
the power that can be weded by the strong and the
contemptuous. I punge nto aurng dffcutes,
and when they thcken menacngy around me, I
craw out of them. hen t comes to truth, I am
fan to aow that you are my ony weak pont, dear,
honest, matter-of-fact brother. word of approba-
ton from you mght k the serpent n me, and yet
that word woud make me fee that I had faen, and
was we on the way to become a harmess nonentty
ke yoursef.- appy, so far there s nothng ether
n my words or deeds that you can approve of. ut
no vrtue coud demand a more fu and candd
confesson of fauts than I acheve n my weeky
etters to a smpe and over-vrtuous country
physcan, whose utmate trumph may e n
e posng to the word the snares and wes of hs
wcked brother. y wrtng to the Emperor of
reneurech of the dangerous pans and proceedngs
of Doctor chute, you woud perhaps render a servce
to your overegn and your country. hat keeps
you from dong so, and what forces me to put mysef
n your power It s a doube mystery, the hnt of
a drama n whch, for one snge moment, the ruffan
becomes a sant, and vce versa. I do not mean to
destroy your honesty, brother, but such fautessness
as yours makes a man ke me shudder. ut I sha
break nto your strong armour, for f you do not
betray me, you are somehow a trator.

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I have crept round that sentmenta Itaan fower-
gr, Lna Marna. he dstrusted and dsked me,
as I had faen n ove wth her and done my best to
put a stop to her romantc ove affar wth Prnce
|oachm. esdes, the Prnce s father, Ethebert,
and the Emperor hmsef were an ous to end the
ason, and were gratefu to me. I shoud have suc-
ceeded, as usua, and Lna Marna and |oachm woud
have gven each other up, and |oachm woud have
marred ueen 0rtrude s daughter, a marrage
paatabe to me, because I requre ueen 0rtrude s
protecton. he s a thorough woman, one whom
one must fear and avod f possbe she s true and
stawart, but happy bnded by famy affectons
and by her fervent ove for the naton over whch she
regns n her own rght. Eros, the crafty nfant,
crossed my path, and forced me to thwart the ueen,
to break off the betrotha of Prncess 0va, whch
had amost been made offca, and to hep Lna
Marna on wth her passonate attachment to the
good-for-nothng, handsome Prnce |oachm.
ha I te you how a ths came about we
schwarze ugen, ene woud have sad (my marrage
present to the future Empress of reneurech s a
sma voume of ene s Poems). e, zwe schwarze
ugen the gorous back eyes of a tte gr, a
maden of s teen ngona by name. 0ne day I
caed upon that madwoman Lna Marna, wth the
ntenton of deang the great bow and teng her
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that |oachm had consented to become ueen
0rtrude s son-n-aw the soe condton of hs
captuaton beng that the Emperor woud m-
medatey pay hs cousn s debts. th tragc men
and eyes fu of sympathetc condoence, I entered
Lna Marna s boudor, a room encumbered as s my
conscence. Vases, bronze consoes and Venetan
mrrors are encountered at every step one takes
across the Persan carpet, on whose purpe depths a
caravan of hours and far saves sowy wnds ts
way. Yeow draperes fa n sunny profuson from
the ceng, and grated ron amps set round the wa
shed a cam, subdued ght. The chords of a harp
sounded fanty n the dstance. I sank nto the
depths of the mut-cooured dvan. trange, satc
odours fed the ar. I cosed my eyes. Evdenty
I was aone, and perhaps woud be obged to wat a
haf-hour before Lna Marna made her appearance.
I seemed to fa nto a trance under the nfuence of
those e otc perfumes. th a start I awoke to fnd
a sender arm, a hand of sunt aabaster restng on
my arm. voce peadngy nqured, Pease, sr,
s gnora Marna reay at home nd do you
beeve she w prove knd to me The voce was
sweet and cear. I turned, and oh the face that
rose before my deghted eyes: a face pathetc n ts
smaness, a face meant to pass unperceved because
of the radant eyes whose power drew my attenton
from everythng but ther transucent and obscure
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depths. erd, umnous, mmense,- ever dated,
ever most, ever vevety and yet voent, they carry
wth them what part of the nfnte the human gaze
s aowed to absorb. Not the darkness of cypress
woods traversed by a beam of sunght can rva ther
umned nght.
I am ngona, sad the gr.
I tred to free mysef from the savery of the
wondrous eyes, n order to see more of her form
whch s short and sght of her strange dress, a
yeow drapery e acty ke the tssue of yeow and
god that fe from the ceng. uge sver braceets
danced on her wrsts as she |oned her hands together,
and sad, 0h, sr, do you thnk I sha ever get
used to t
Get used to what I nqured, rather unhnged
by the gr s famar tones.
he smed mysterousy and put her fnger to her
ps.
peak ower, sad she. I woud not have
gnora Marna earn that I oathe the stage even
before I begn my work as an actress. I thought
you were the famous mpresaro to whom she wants
to ntroduce me ths afternoon. ut snce you are
not, sr, I can tak freey. It s a so dfferent from
the convent, so dfferent from my dreams the theatre,
the dark cousses, the harsh-voced actors and ther
panted faces and ther coarse ways. 0h, I sha de,
I sha de f gnora Marna nssts on my
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gong on the stage. E cept the knd nuns, to
whom I have bdden adeu, gnora Marna s the
ony person n the word who takes any nterest
n me. I have no one to care for I am
an orphan. ut I cannot become an actress.
esdes, I have aways been very awkward and
tmd.
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ment, but there was a chd-ke grace and nnocence
n her assertons. My breath came qucker, and I
fet my heart beat as the young gr knet besde me
and sad mporngy, If you are a frend or reatve
of gnora Marna, do te her to keep me here wth
her, or to send me back to the convent. you
be knd to me and do ths
gan the spe of the magc ght that fe from
those marveous eyes took hod of me. he
casped my hand n both of hers.
0h do hep me, she peaded.
I am the favourte of the Emperor of reneurech
kngs, queens, prncesses ook up to me for advce
and even protecton, yet a contnua cravng for the
happness that comes from ove aone gnaws at my
fe. I kssed ngona s pure forehead, and I swore
to protect the young gr, even to the detrment
of my own ambtous pans. o, when gnora Lna
Marna entered the room, I fet pedged to take
up ngona s cause. Lna Marna, feversh and
mpatent, sad to the chd, Darng, the dress you
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must try on s n my bedroom. tay there t I ca
you, and the gr gded out.
ho s she I nqured of the gnora, whose
hands were busy wth her ong pats of back har.
I I do not e acty know who she s, nor who
her parents were, stammered Lna. nd what
about Prnce |oachm and hs hs betrothed I
suppose she s hs betrothed, sn t she the foregn,
saow-faced Prncess wth the dead-potato compe on
I saw at the 0pera, n the Impera bo
Yes, I answered quety, the Prnce w be
marred to the Prncess 0va of ngaga.
Though Lna Marna had evdenty nerved hersef
to receve the news, ke the gaspng swmmer
aganst whose breast a huge wave breaks, she
tottered and fe back among the cushons n an
agony of sobs. |oachm |oachm she cred
passonatey, wth a the despar and force of a
forsaken woman. |oachm, my beoved My
Prnce nd foods of tears made dark spots on
the gaudy brocade and god of the dvan cushons.
rother, I had ooked forward to the |oy of seeng
that woman, whose ove I have sued for n van,
bewa her fathess over. I had pursued her
through thck and thn, t the deady arrow sped
by my crafty hand entered her sou. The thought
of the hour of her downfa, of Prnce |oachm s
treason and of my trumph, had been to me ke a
shnng panet whch ent ght and fe to my
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undertakng. nd now that I had ved to see her
wrthe under the pan nfcted by me and that
other man whose cowardy conduct was my work, I
aughed to fnd that I cared nothng for her sobs, a
sound whch a few days before woud have faen
caressngy on my ears I aughed at the very dea
that I had once oved the tortured beng who now
fted to me the gaze of a bewdered martyr.
ho s the gr I nqured agan, though I
woud have gven words to keep the queston back
but a force stronger than my w urged me on.
The gr the gr repeated Lna Marna.
ngona. ho s ngona
h sad Lna Marna. Now that a s over,
now that |oachm has betrayed and abandoned me,
now that I am nothng but the phantom of a
woman, ony the ashes of my body and mnd, now I
may say who ngona s, and you may repeat t
to the whoe town, and to the whoe Court, Doctor
chute. Now that your work wth me s done, you
may sneerngy enter the paace of Prnce |oachm
and repeat my words, and ra at hm and say, The
woman whom you beeved pure and true, the
woman whom you wanted to make your wfe, was
not better than a the women of her cass a stage-
woman ony, after a. nd who cares for the
prncpes and vrtue of a stage-woman Yes,
Doctor chute quck, take my carrage, go to the
Prnce s paace, ascend the ofty marbe starcase,
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and on the threshod of hs chamber cry out to the
man who breaks Lna s heart, Lna Marna has a
daughter. ome s teen years ago, when Lna
Marna went to eva, she there became enamoured
of a handsome toreador. ngona s the chd
of Lna Marna and ngeo Nastor, the famous
torero.
hat I e camed. nd you force your own
chd to a fe oathsome and ow as yours must
have been, a fe of fasehood and sn
Lna Marna was not n the mood to wonder at
my sudden peadngs n favour of moraty and hgh-
fown sentments, ese her answer mght have proved
nmca but the sprt of Truth had taken hod of
her senses, and she went on
ngeo had promsed to marry me. fterwards
when women rcher than I nvted hm to ther
houses and showered compments on hm, he
became ambtous, and thought of makng a great
match. I had to eave pan, and took the chd
away from the bad assocates that gathered at her
father s house. Durng the frst few months, ngeo
wrote and sent money then a ong sence, the
sence that betokens the death of memory, setted
between us. I pursued my career, and soon my
fame reached the ears of ngona s father. s
wfe was dead. e had gven up the arena and
was no onger the most popuar man n pan. ut
my popuarty, and, perhaps, aso the dea that I was
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makng money, attracted hm. e came to me, and
on hs knees he begged for the favour of becomng
my husband. ut dsgust and separaton had
erased hs mage from my heart hs peadng eyes
and voce faed to reca the past. Infurated, the
man endeavoured n every way to n|ure me n my
professon, and even to take my chd away from me
by sheer force. e got some of hs comrades to
hep hm, and a pot was ad whch mght have
succeeded but for a servant to whom I had shown
some kndness n eva. t nght, maddened by
fear ke a crmna, I eft Pars. You may remember
the fuss made over the mystery of my dsappearance
and how, on the very evenng that I was to pay the
prncpa part n rmda at the Pars 0pera ouse,
no trace of Lna Marna coud be found. Many of
the papers asserted that I was the woman whose
body, found the ne t day n the ene, wth mutated
and unrecognzabe features, attracted as great a
crowd to the Morgue as the one that woud have
attended the 0pera. In the meantme, at Innsbruck,
where I ved n retrement under a fase name, I
made the acquantance of an od nun beongng to
the ceebrated congregaton that dwes n that
town. To her I confded the hstory of my fe.
My secret was safe wth her, and she proposed to
take ngona nto the convent, addng that perhaps
t woud be better for the chd and for mysef to
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orgn. ngona does not know that I am her
mother, and, owng to my professon, I soon notced
that my vsts to the convent were not aways
wecome to the knd nuns. Post-cards and magaznes
have made my features unversay famar. o, n
the nterests of ngona, I stopped my frequent
cas. oon afterwards, I eft Innsbruck for Munch
and London then returned to Pars, and fnay
setted n rena.
0ccasonay I pad a fyng vst to the Innsbruck
nuns To ngona s fancy, I was a fary, a beng
sent from some etherea regons, and who came
aden wth fowers and trnkets. My beautfu tte
gr deveoped n sweetness and earnng Latn,
Greek, the ore of ages, knded n her the ove of
art and beauty. o proud were the nuns of ther
pup that ngona became ther favourte, and
they reveed n the fact that she possessed a voce
e traordnary for ts cearness and strength. he
entered her teens, and at that moment I met Prnce
|oachm. e oved me, and every other dream gave
pace to the dream of hs face, and a passonate
yearnng for hs presence. My daughter was eft
amost competey to the care of the nuns. 0nce
or twce they wrote etters contanng dsturbng
hnts about her temperament, but I put them
asde. |oachm |oachm to thee I sacrfced the
chd of my youth, my ngona to thee
Lna Marna crossed the room wth a desparng
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gesture, and dramatcay beat her head aganst the
wa. he contnued
Vany the nuns tod me that the god of art, the
god mpacabe as the god of ove, had begun to
torment ngona, that she sept bady and rarey
smed, that both nght and day she contnuay
found e cuses to be aone n the convent chape,
where she woud run her fngers aong the chords of
the organ, and f the pace wth the tempestuous
torrents of her qud voce. 0h, that voce I
strange, ceesta and hesh at the same tme ke
her eyes that voce as wde and deep as the
Guadaquvr, as crysta as the sunt snow on the
erras, as sparkng as the god and the stee of
Toedo spears that voce nto whose sweng
spendour mne dsappears even as the rver ds-
appears, swaowed up by the surge of the ocean
that voce shook the od convent to ts huge founda-
tons. 0ut of ther ces at nght the younger nuns
trooped, and out of ther beds the grs crept, and
steathy foowed the beautfu- summons, whe n
ther sous the past and the future rose and mur-
mured, Lfe s strong eave ths pace where
quet and prayer have chaned ye, and kept ye far
from the beauty and oveness of fe. nay,
ngona s voce, her ways, her ooks proved so
dsturbng to the knd nuns, that they asked me to
take the chd away from Innsbruck. ngona
was desperate at eavng the convent. I nspred
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her wth admraton and awe, but there was not one
spark of affecton for me n her heart, and my own
materna nstncts were botted out, by the amost
heathensh adoraton I avshed upon |oachm. I
coud not keep on grndng away at ths or that
arrangement for her wefare, and I had to keep her
out of the Prnce s way. The Prnce s mpct con-
fdence n me forced me to see as tte of my chd
as possbe. ngona ves n a boardng-house,
whose doors w soon be ocked aganst her. he
s earnng to become an actress ke mysef. The
drama ooks out from her eyes, though her educaton
and tastes seem to rebe aganst t at present.
The stage s a severe master f one wshes to
succeed. ngona cannot brng hersef to
assocate wth any of the companons she meets at
the theatre. he practses the rues for deportment
taught by the nuns. In the coster she showed
hersef worthy of her mother, the actress, and her
father, the pansh toreador on the stage, her
manners, kes and dskes are those of a demure
coster-gr 1
I guessed as much, gnora Marna, answered I.
You cannot force the ovey gnorna nto a career
the outward formates of whch are hatefu to
her.
Lna Marna sghed, and, recurrng agan to her
own gref, hed her head between her trembng
pams, and murmured, 0h, |oachm |oachm
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beoved hat sha I do ow sha I survve
the bow
gnora Marna, sad I, wth a camness of att-
tude and even moduaton of voce that made her
start apprehensvey, I see but one way out of
your present dffcutes and, may I add, your
present sorrow. Up to the present I have been so
unfortunate as not to concde wth your wshes and
ams. ut, as matters stand, you must marry the
Prnce
Now, any man but Doctor chute woud have
handed the sub|ect more fectousy, but Doctor
chute, one of Netzsche s best pups, was we
aware that gnora Lna Marna had sunk to that
abyss of despar whence ony a shock coud rescue
her. Ths vgorous counter-attack sent her nto a
ft of hysterca aughter. I make t a rue not to
undervaue my ndvduaty, and the admrabe
effect of my tactcs n ths nstance absorbed my
attenton for the moment and prevented me for some
tme from makng any attempt to quet her.
nay I sad n, f possbe, a st more con-
troed voce: You must marry Prnce |oachm.
Now, pease, put your kerchef down, ook nto my
eyes, touch my puse, and you w fnd that I am as
perfecty n my senses as when I enter the Emperor s
bedroom before he rses n the mornng a famar
habt whch hs approachng marrage s key to
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stepped between Prnce |oachm and hs true ove.
I admt he oves you truy foos aways do ove
wth honest sncerty but I wshed to wn you for
mysef and to marry you. (Even n ths e tremty,
wth her dated eyes f ed upon mne, ke those of
a drownng wretch hypnotzed by the swayng bt
of rope he s futey tryng to grasp, I saw the
woman s body shudder from head to foot, and care-
fuy I noted to what an e tent she oathed me. Yet
no dea of revenge coud nterfere wth my pan to
dever ngona from her mother s nfuence, and
ater to secure her sympathy n my favour, Men
entendu.)
gnora Marna, I went on, your daughter s
a thousand tmes more attractve, more beautfu,
more wonderfu than yoursef, and athough I owe t
to gaantry to own you resembe her, t s as the
pebbe resembes the damond when the same sun-
beam fas on both. ut take up the damond then
take up the pebbe
Lna Marna appeared not to notce my qup.
hat about the Prnce she nqured.
h brother, these Itaan donnas are reay as
fery as the wne drawn from the vnes that grow
under ther vocanoes. Love burns ther bood even
as the ava burns the earth. 0bvousy she thought
tte of her daughter, and ether dd not recognze
or care for the per to ngona nvoved n my
sudden and eoquent nfatuaton.
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nd |oachm she asked hurredy.
You sha marry |oachm, I reped. I can
unrave the compcated threads of ntrgue, for they
were woven by me aone. I am skfu enough not
to ncur the wrath of ueen 0rtrude, and sha
soothe her ndgnant fury when the betrotha of her
daughter s broken off by me.
0h qucky qucky do t qucky, dear, dear
Doctor chute and she touched my arm mpor-
ngy, an acton that her w and her prudence had
aways prevented her ardent temperament from
achevng before. Dear, dear Doctor chute
Dear me no dears, answered I, and do me the
honour of beng certan that I never act but n my
own nterests, urged on by my persona nstncts and
desres.
ut you are knd
I am a van, gnora Lna and qute ds-
tressed when from tme to tme I am obged
temporary to suppress my rea character. Pooh
t s the ack of magnaton that makes foos and
vrtuous-mnded peope. nd yet the ack of m-
agnaton renders me crue. Now, when I perceved
your ngona here, my magnaton stoe me away
from ths gorgeous chamber, and took me to the
paces I had vsted wth admraton orrento, a
sma sand on the osphorus, Madera, an od
manson by a cotch ake and I pctured to my-
sef the bss I coud taste f eft aone n one of

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these paradses wth your ngona. In a word,
gnora, I am over head and ears n ove wth your
daughter, and my ntenton s to marry her.
Lna Marna turned on me eyes as dry and hard
as a stone-quarry, and, unwttng of the danger she
ncurred, e camed wth scorn and ndgnaton,
You You You marry my daughter Marry
my beautfu, my darng ngona The woman
seemed ready to tear me asunder. 0rpheus-ke I
fed before the wrath of the bacchante, and took
refuge behnd the dvan, whe some of my sympathy
and esteem was reganed by the gnora as she sad
sowy, I woud rather never set eyes on Prnce
|oachm agan than sacrfce my chd.
Mne s a vrtue-shunnng presence, I admt, and
the strugge n the mother s sou had been a short
and decsve one n favour of her better sentments.
I broke the deep sence whch foowed by sayng,
Good-bye. I must ca on the Prncess 0va of
ngaga, and hear when er Poya ghness w
be ready to receve the offca vst of her fancV
th a short cry of pan, Lna Marna sprang to
the door, and sad, No, no you sha not eave ths
room t you promse to undo Prnce |oachm s
betrotha snce you decare you can break off the
hatefu match. er eyes were now fed wth
tears.
Madam, I sad, t s n your power not ony to
separate Prnce |oachm from the Prncess 0va,
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but aso to become hs wfe. I work for my ove-
save yours, f you w. Promse me not to thwart
me n my endeavours to wn ngona, and the
Prnce sha be here ths very evenng, sung for
pardon.
ut, sad the hestatng mother, but ngona
woud not have you even f I admtted the poss-
bty. ngona s dreams
Gve me my opportunty, and I w dsspate her
dreams.
ut t s dreadfu t s abomnabe, sad the
tortured woman. he mght be your your own
granddaughter. You are over s ty.
ut I have a heart unwrnked, as Vctor
ugo woud have sad, I answered. Yet why
shoud I dscuss wth you a matter whch your refusa
has setted deu, gnora.
Do not go, she sad mporngy. Te me
what I can do. ow coud I order ngona to be-
come your wfe, when I have never camed to be
more than smpy the chd s frend he beeved
me to be a dstant reatve of her mother. he s
astute and cever, and woud not ony refuse, but
openy accuse me of tryng to make her mserabe.
he woud fy back to the convent.
ut, dear gnora, you speak as f I wanted to
gan your daughter s hand and her affectons by
force. Your receptve facutes are dued by your
eagerness to free Prnce |oachm. I sha not curta
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the young gr s prospects, nor, at present, her
berty. My desres do not necesstate the destruc-
ton of her future. I sha not even menton them
to the gnorna at ths tme provded she s put
n my charge I sha take good care not to offend
her
I do not understand, sad Lna Marna.
You have smpy to te ngona that I am her
guardan, the man to whom she must ook for pro-
tecton. The ueen of ngaga s n search of a
young ectrce and companon for her daughters, who
are tred of ther monotonous Court ades, and I w
send ngona off to Estaa for a year or two, and
show her as much kndness as possbe, even that of
sparng her my presence. You say she s whmsca,
I sha be equa to the occason. Leave her to
me, or, rather, eave her to ueen 0rtrude, who s a
perfect mother and an dea queen er Ma|esty s
protecton shoud be worth as much as that of an
mpresaro. fter an nterva of a year or two, the
gnorna w be free to depart from Estaa then I
sha proffer my sut, and f she refuses me, so much
the worse for Doctor chute.
wayed by confctng sentments, Lna Marna
hkd stened wth straned facutes. I coud fee
that she was ransackng her conscence to fnd faut
wth her apprecaton of my offer.
nd sha I be abe to see my daughter durng
her stay at Court
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e, yes, I suppose f you go to Estaa. he
must take the poston f at a very soon, at the
begnnng of ne t week, as the ueen and the
Prncess are about to eave.
nd Prnce |oachm she asked tmdy,
ashamed to revea that her thoughts aways reverted
to the same sub|ect.
Prnce |oachm your future husband e,
he w spend ths evenng by the sde, and et us
hope at the feet, of hs wfe hs morganatc spouse
to be. Mnd ths you w be morganatc.
he tossed her head mpatenty. - nd what
care I whether morganatc or not, provded |oachm
s wth me, provded |oachm oves me
rother, why shoud I nger over my trumph
ngona s at present n the Impera Paace wth
ueen 0rtrude s daughter. The ueen reves n
the hope that the Emperor Leone w marry her
0va, and she has forgven Prnce |oachm to
the e tent of recevng Lna Marna kndy, who s
thus abe to keep n touch wth the wefare of her
chd.
You ook down upon me from the heghts of
perfecton Indeed, you mght easy become that
most abomnabe of human monstrostes, a Perfect
Man, were t not for the secret affecton whch st
bnds you to me. ut my setted ntenton to
deveop more and more nto what you woud term a
mora mnotaur w aways prevent you from beng
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ether perfect, or even happy and whoy sncere n
your brothery attachment.
. C ULTE.
Prncess |ohanna of ngaga to Mr. |ohn
Grey.
Dear Mr. Grey,
hen w the ong-awated moment come
Yesterday, at dusk, I eaned out of my bacony and
saw you wakng n the garden. nd suddeny I sad
to mysef, Perhaps, after a, the hour we have tred
to summon s here at ast, and, a unwttng of the
sacred rte, we sha make a sent e change of our
sous. 0h, how gorous and bessed I sha fee
when n ths terre d terre, commonpace mnd of mne
your sprt sha dwe, f ony for a few short seconds
My father knows nothng of ths, nor my sster
ether, though I am afrad I have sad somethng
whe aseep n the bg arm-char of the conservatory
ths mornng. hema s frghtened. You see,
prncesses are kept aoof from the great, as we as
the sma, emotons of fe, and every effort s made
to make them as sefsh as the ran goddess of
antquty to whom most of them ove to be compared.
In fact, we coud not toerate the Court es and
Court hypocrsy, wear unconcerned faces, and forbear
to mourn over our dead, and over our own heartaches,
were we otherwse brought up. Mara Lousa of
ustra, second wfe of Napoeon I, oved nothng
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but her canares, a host of whch she kept n a huge
cage. Ths was before her marrage, and the young
rchduchess s egotsm had been fostered wth such
care that the ony events that strred her emotons
depended on the canares. hen one of the brds
ded, the tny corpse was hurredy taken out of the
cage and t was repaced before she found out and
the rchduchess came to beeve that her brds were
mmorta. o, when she heard of some death that
had occurred n her famy or n her entourage, she
ponted to the yeow pets and sad, They are
cever enoughnot to de, and shrugged her shouders.
Now, our usons are ke the canares of that stupd,
we-renowned dowdy, the Empress Mara Lousa, and
though to ths day her nephews and her own grand-
chdren are ashamed of her foosh caousness, the
educaton she receved dd not much dffer from ours.
Prncesses, when they get marred, and are free, take
to modern deas, ove peasure and dress, and adopt
the manners of the arstocrats and the rch mdde
casses wth whom they assocate but t s amost
mpossbe for them to adopt aso the emotona
habts of ther new frends. e are taught not to
hde our feengs, but to smother them at brth.
Mne are ke ercues, who ked the serpents sent
to devour hm. nd to you, dear Doctor Grey, s
ercues ndebted for the frendy grasp that roused
hm out of hs perous sumbers.
0ur dnner-party yesterday was the scene of a
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seres of terrfc bunders. Every one present, e cept
the Prme Mnster, seemed to beeve that my sster
0va s betrotha to the Prnce of reneurech was
to take pace ths afternoon, n rena, and subte
congratuatons came from a sdes. My father
ooked n dstress at hema across the tabe, but
Court etquette forbds prncesses gvng ther
opnons or communcatng news, so hema aowed
the mpresson to reman uncorrected, t I smpy
sad to my neghbour, but n an audbe voce,
Prnce |oachm of reneurech s engaged to the
prma donna, Lna Marna. ad the dnng-room
panes fown n the faces of our guests, ther surprse
and embarrassment coud not have been greater.
Nervous coughs, and even one or two tmd attempts
at sneezng were conspcuous n the sudden sence.
Then the Premer, deghted to show off, and to
demonstrate that no dsaster whatever coud fnd hm
unprepared, aunched nto deep consderatons con-
cernng morganatc unons. The Prnce Consort
decared that Lna Marna was trs chc and very we
bred, and that the ueen had been qute charmed to
receve the c-devant actress n her apartments at the
Impera paace. n outburst of admraton of Lna
Marna s person and her taent foowed.
he a ths was gong on, I refected on re-em-
bodment, and, cearer even than ast week, when I
had that never-to-be-forgotten vson, I remembered
the satc nght n the desert, the sme of the
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sunburnt sands, the coo rest n the oass, at the tme
when I was a came-drver. ho coud have tod
then that the age rab woud return to the earth
as a prncess 0h, thank you, thank you, dear Mr.
Grey, for a the truth and beauty and new ams that
you have brought nto my nspd fe. ster
hema w not mock me much onger, when she
fnds what an eevatng thng s ths ardent search
after knowedge, for whch you have brought nto
beng n me so great a thrst.
|ohanna.
Prncess Geokgna von dngen to her
Mother, the Duchess von dngen.
Taarbruck choss.
Dear knd Mother,
It seems ages snce you eft Taarbruck, and
I shoud much have preferred havng no trousseau
and no marrage festvtes to beng wthout you
durng these most momentous days of my fe.
ere we are, a by ourseves, n the dear, dark bg
choss, nna Pauna and I, the brde-eect of the
Emperor of reneurech. The dea that I have
n|ured my sster and deprved her of happness s
paramount wth me. eeve me, mother, nna
Pauna oves Matthew hs mage s graven on her
heart. Love s a fower of such rapd growth that n
the very frst week she saw hm the fower unfoded
ts petas, and now the frost has come. nna
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Pauna personfes the sprt of sacrfce. he seems
content smpy to be abe to do somethng for the
man from whom she e pected to receve every knd
of happness. It seems poverty of anguage that the
word ove be made to e press sentments nfnte
and vared as the sea. nna Pauna beeves that
I do not guess the depth of her tragedy. rom the
terrace where I was oungng ths mornng, I saw her
stea to my room thnkng she was not observed, she
took up Matthew s portrats, one after the other, and
gazed ntenty on the face she cannot succeed n
banshng from her heart, and then she fe on her
knees besde the tabe, and wth upfted hands and
face, prayed as a martyred sant mght pray before
the Cross. hen I entered the room, some twenty
mnutes afterwards, I found her apparenty absorbed
n readng Lenau s book of poems, but the paeness
of her fngers, her burnng tempes, whch I kssed
softy, showed me pany that the nner hurrcane
was scarcey subdued. Mother, how can I fee the
same Georgna as before, wth ths, my sster s
dstress, on my conscence nd nna Pauna does
not possess a reactve nature. her dreams are
cast nto one moud. e had, then and there, a tak
about poets. You tod me that you wsh to hear
everythng we do and say durng your absence, so I
sha gve you our conversaton, as we as I can
remember t.
The frst gust of autumn gaes ran through the
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woods and made the rver s dashng wa ouder.
Yeow and purpe heather now covers the md spaces.
The shadow of the choss turrets gets thcker every-
day and more chy, as f the mysterous form that
our feuda dweng traces on sand and sward were
nhabted by the sprt of the wnd. ow smpe
and whte does my sma sttng-room appear n con-
trast wth the crmson rchness shed by the season
over the foage of the park In a fortnght I sha
be far away, and have ofty apartments and a that
rank and tradton and money can bestow. ha I,
then, regret my snowy chamber and these the ast
hours of my freedom at Taarbruck
nna Pauna oves poets every poet, I beeve,
from the humbest to the oftest, from the mn-
nesngers to the pure cassca meody of Goethe.
Lenau s her especa favourte.
I asked her, nna Pauna, don t you beeve
that every one of us woud become a poet, f ony we
had the courage
It s the senty endured pan that makes a poet
at heart, sad nna Pauna. nd most of these
are the mute poets whose poems w ever reman
unsung. To them are the outspoken poems addressed.
To them does a compete harmony between the sou
and the unverse appea.
Nature aso has her poets, nna Pauna, and
her panters. Look and sten. Look at the tnts
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fnest and sweetest and most voent of panters,
despte the fresh and enchantng dversty that
drops from the brush of sprng nd what a poet
s the wnd
Yes, sad nna Pauna. Yes, you are happy,
Georgna, because you understand what others smpy
fee.
nd don t you prefer feengs to comprehenson,
sster dear
Then, wth amost a cry of protest, nna Pauna
rose, advanced to the cosed wndow and, restng her
forehead aganst the pane, sad, I woud prefer
anythng, even the unknown tortures of he, even
those descrbed by Dante, everythng to the ever-
present pang that feeng mposes on bran and
nerves. h f I coud ony have been cever, or
e tremey foosh/or unfeeng ke a fnt I woud
gady ose every vta |oy f aso pan
The camorous fght of the wnd seemed to make
response to her words.
Then nna Pauna suddeny became frghtened
at the haf-reveatons she had made, and wth
sweet and cam demeanour, and n smooth accents,
she retracted her avowa. In fact, she sad, I
am rather humated not to be a genus, or somethng
of the knd an artst ke rederc, or an nspred,
werd beng ke that composer whom you admre,
Georgna. Those peope who ve n a vocanc state
make a quet nature ke mne qute |eaous, and of
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course I woud gady e change what quet, everyday
sentments I can boast of for ther nteectua gfts.
ut, nna Pauna, ther gfts are not nteec-
tua they smpy fee they fathom the ocean of
feeng, of gref and despar. They make great
havoc among the passons that come wthn ther
grasp.
Georgna, sad nna Pauna, wth quet force.
Georgna, I mpore you, do not enter the fery
abyrnth of ther ways. You are to be the wfe of
a powerfu soveregn, and at the same tme the wfe
of a young man who oves you. The doube task set
before you s a very dffcut one as an empress
you must ren n your thoughts, wear a mask of
unwng hypocrsy as a woman and a spouse you
must reman payfu, a chd n manner and words.
hch of these dutes w you accompsh
oth, or nether, nna Pauna, answered I, and
coud not say one syabe more, as at that moment
the shr sound of a huntng horn rent the ar, then
a percng scream whch made our bood freeze, and
amost mmedatey after, the |nge of spurs on the
starcase was foowed by the sound of heavy foot-
steps. The door creaked on ts hnges, and on the
threshod Cousn rederc, an apparton ke a
medaeva hero, stopped short, hs hemet gtterng
on hs bonde har. e coud see he was n one of
hs most terrbe fts, a paro ysm whch sent arrows
of ght through hs brght bue eyes, and made hs
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pups trembe ke the water of streams under the
sun s sharp noonday s geam. The man whose prases
nna Pauna had sounded but a few mnutes before
stood behnd hm, tryng n van to precede hm nto
the room.
rederc s hand payed wth the goden |ewe-
studded ht of hs bg sword. vaunt he sad, n
a stentoran voce. Three tmes he cred vaunt
then proceeded, prt of the aters, thou shat
not have me yet. Even f I am doomed to de n thy
arms, not yet shat thou have the pure, the chvarous
kng, brother of Lohengrn and of the dvne wan.
vaunt Thou hast traced my steps to ths pace.
I saw thee arse out of the rver, then, as I drew my
sword, dsappear, and from the bosom of the torrent
thou hast rsen now, and art here n front of me.
nd agan I sha ft the haowed sword whose
pont hath touched the Graa.
You cannot magne, mother dear, how reay
handsome and ma|estc and mystca rederc ooked
as he ponted to the magnary antagonst whom he
addressed menacngy.
vaunt, prt of the aters, he cred agan
the tme hath not yet come when I must yed
mysef up to thee. To my shverng dstress, he
then sad, pontng to me wth hs outstretched sword,
nd she aso, the Empress of a and as dverse as
the cunnng desgn of a mosac she aso, she
sha be thy paramour, thy vctm and thy prey.
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To thee, to the ove of thy waves and thy shores her
maturer years sha be gven she sha scour thy
movng pans and converse wth thy naads and thy
srens, and then must she surrender to thee, and de
amd the bue sme of thy summer spendour.
I trembed, and tred to nterrupt rederc, whe
the tran of offcers and courters n the ha behnd
hm urged the mysterous muscan to acton. nd
when at ast, e hausted and breathess, the nsane
ng fe on a char, hs retnue nvaded the room,
the muscan opened the pano and the gorgeous
strans of that musc whose power over my nerves s
so snguar ued rederc s dre vson to seep. . . .
0h, mother, what s ths hat s ths that my
own dreams and the hauntng, spe-strcken voce of
our doorous knsman announce
efore twght ended I was forced to unwng
aughter, and to draw a comparson between amet
and rederc.
Poonus-ke, the Count of areben, hs frst
chamberan, gded wth cautous dgnty and gente-
ness to hs master s sde, and n the ntervas whch
the torrenta outpourngs of the musc dd not f,
murmured, Your Ma|esty s ndeed a great dramatc
actor. The Prncesses amost beeved that Your
Ma|esty had that vson n earnest The scene was
admraby brought out. Your Ma|esty acted t
beautfuy
Dd I asked the ng, n a dstrat, off-hand way.
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Notng that Count areben s remark had been
dsregarded by the ng, hs groom-n-watng aso
stepped forward and payfuy decared, Indeed, the
Count s rght, for Your Ma|esty s performance
bordered on reaty, and I began to be genuney
afrad of the prt of the aters.
ush sad the ng, ftng hs forefnger,
ese you may ca the demon back. Then, turnng
to me, rederc sad, n grave and mournfu accents:
as I have agan had one of my fts, Georgna.
I have seen the Invsbe and heard thngs forbdden
to human ears. Is t my faut f the forms that urk
around us unseen and portentous are to my eyes as
papabe as the curve of that pared avenue whose
depth s ost among the trees ave you ever
heard them, Georgna the courters of madness
and of he ut ts not he I am traversng, ts
heaven, contnued he, wth growng e ataton.
ounds, odours and coours combne n cashng
unon. My senses and my sprts overfow, and that
man s the son of the Eements. e ooked fondy
at the muscan, whose arms had faen away from
the keys of the nstrument. e s the son of
Mnos, the kng who regns n the reams unearthy.
e forces the wnds and the storms and the waves,
and the seasons, one by one, to dwe mprsoned n
hs sou and hs hands. nd he has turned the
curse of hs race nto a bessng for me. My con-
tempt of manknd strengthens my aspratons.
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P0Y L L0VEP 99
Georgna, can you deny that you resembe me,
that you despse weakness and a the good that
comes from weakness, and your own sster for not
hatng you and for havng gven up her over to
you . . .
Mother, oh, how can rederc know the truth
about my feengs Mother, do come back I oathe
mysef. I oathe mysef and the Emperor and my
fate Do come back.
Georgna.
The Duchess of dngen to her Unce, Prnce
Ethebert of reneurech.
Dearest Unce,
I know not whether to condoe wth you, or
to quarre wth you over the n|ustce, the traces of
whch seem to be found everywhere. It seems
dreadfu that you, dear unce, the kndest of knsmen,
and the ceverest, shoud be doomed to ca an actress
your daughter-n-aw (oh no, you must never ca
her any other name than that creature ) you
who are the great benefactor of our famy Georgna
owes to you her brght prospects. I fee sure she
w prove gratefu. 0ne secret I must te you, a
dark secret whose obscure menace ooms behnd the
|oyousness of the Impera betrotha. Georgna s
No, I cannot wrte t but I see my troubes rse n
hosts before me. Georgna s as you must have
guessed the horrbe, the a-pervadng truth. ut
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100 P0Y L L0VEP
the affecton my chd bears you cannot be bounded
by any form of ness or egotsm, and when those
days n whch the tedum stac oppresses her mnd
sha dawn upon her, to you w she come for hep
and succour. To you beongs the task of gudng
and consong the Empress of reneurech. Your
wfe was my father s sster, a dngen to bone and
fbre. Your son s marrage ponts to the fact that he
s worthy of our sad renown, and I hear that every
Court n Europe bames Matthew and ptes hm,
and predcts that my daughter w brng -uck on
the Impera ouse of rena. nd when a we-
dsposed person observes that Matthew oves
Georgna, and that he s hs own master (thank
God ) every one says that the fckeness of a young
man s heart s notorous n socety, and that I woud
have been wser to pay the stoc and refuse hm my
daughter s hand. I need hardy te you that spnster
prncesses and daughter-encumbered Poya gh-
nesses ook down on me from the heghts of ndgnant
vrtue. ow unkey that I shoud prefer fne
phrases and tragc atttudes to our own nterests
nd, besdes, not one of my detractors woud have
credted me wth the sacrfce.
Georgna has ugy presentments as to her future.
y these and by many carefuy hdden spnters n
the facade of our bss s the trumph of ascendng a
throne spot. t
rauen Tbptz, a former mad who by persona
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P0Y L L0VEP 101
merts, dscreton and devoted attenton, has sowy
rsen to the rank of ectrce, and taught Georgna
needework, w foow her to rena, and w never
aow any one but you to dscover the cause of our
apprehensons. so rauen L, a smart and
pretty gr of about twenty-s , s apponted to wat
on the Empress as the thrd or fourth ammer- rau.
I hear the Empress of reneurech s bound to
have any number of ammer- rau, and when I
remember that two of them suffced to crush every
peasure n me ut Georgna s so partcuar
as regards hardressng another of her whms
and she aso professes an e aggerated knd of remorse
concernng nna Pauna. as dear unce, how
useess a sentment, and vod of attracton, s
remorse to soveregns totay cumbersome.
ow are your coectons thrvng I envy
Georgna, who w en|oy numerous occasons for
cang on you. nna Pauna s merts w soon be
recompensed. e hear that the edest son of the
ng of Presto s rather smtten wth her face as
seen n a photograph n whch she eans geefuy on
Matthew s arm. I ordered a those photographs to
be destroyed, but n ths case dsobedence has proved
a beneft to us.
Your devoted Nece.
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ueen 0rtrude of ngaga to Doctor
chute.
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Emperor Leone spent the evenng wth us. 0va
was -humoured, and dd not show off n the east.
0rtrude.
ueen 0rtrude of ngaga to her usband,
the Prnce Consort.
Dear heart, I do ong to see you soon agan. nd
I wsh I coud return to Estaa wth some good re-
sut accompshed. ho s |ohn Grey ngona,
the gr whom Doctor chute recommended, s qute
up to my deas of a modest young ectrce. he
speaks Itaan and Engsh, and has tred to draw out
the Emperor as to hs matrmona vews and n-
tentons. I trust they are n sweet harmony wth
ours. Much ove. u revor. eep a good eye on
the grs. I hear every one companng of the way
n whch young prncesses are nfuenced by modern
deas. I ca the state of thngs the ecuarsaton
of thrones. bentdt.
0rtrude.
Prncess 0va of ngaga to her ster,
Prncess hema
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n the paace abaze, and ght for me ten candes
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before the mage of the Madonna. The Emperor
won t have me. e s n ove wth two women
nstead of me: the dark woman, an Itaan beauty,
taks potcs the bonde per s a panard, the
daughter of a grandee, wth har copper-tnted as
that of the Goths her ancestors. 0ne of these two
he has decded to wed. I even beeve he s secrety
betrothed to one of them, and n hs quet, meanchoy
way he chuckes d avance over the dscomfture of
egbe prncesses who ooked down upon hm from
the heghts of penness chosses and dre Eben-
hurtghet. Mother s fed wth fury and astonsh-
ment, ras aganst the ovey tyran andscape, n-
suts mountans, fr-trees and torrents. he forbds
ngona to read hgh-fown noves to me. hema,
there are women who eope. Now, what must a
woman who eopes fee ngona tod me she saw
one, a rea ve one, who stayed three days n the
convent at Innsbruck. he actuay taked to her.
hy does not mother encourage us to nterest our-
seves n some other form of human emoton than the
requests and the grattude of the poor
nd you shoud have seen Lna Marna 0h,
hema No wonder that Prnce |oachm pre-
ferred her to me nd what a sad, sad dfference
between the dowdness of a we-brought-up Prncess
I suppose we are we brought up and the cever,
pathetc beauty of those women whom mother cas
creatures, as f to bear the name of the abrcant
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104 P0Y L L0VEP
who has made us means an nsut. The perfume
that heraded the approach of Lna Marna traveed
mes ahead of her. nd her curtsey he dropped
her head t her powdered chn rested on the mdde
of her bosom, t the strkng whteness of her neck
was vsbe under her gossy curs. 0h, those
curs back mrrors, entanged |et-work I shoud
ca them, and the nas of her |eweed fngers
shone, and every one of her teeth was a dazzng
whte pebbe, and she spoke wth such meek humty
and her body foowed every suggeston her voce
chose to make nd, though she wore a ong, heavy,
trang dress of vevet, I saw, I actuay saw the
musces of her egs movng n a subte manner, ke
those of an raban horse. he s somehow reated
to ngona, or her frend but I do not thnk the
gr cares much for her.
Lna Marna s to be marred to Prnce |oachm at
one of hs country paces not far from rena, where
they w contnue to ve n the Prnce s own paace,
the handsomest among the dwengs of the Impera
famy. Lna Marna w not be treated as the
Prnce s egtmate wfe, nor presde at hs tabe, nor
go out wth hm when the footman wears hs very,
nor appear n pubc wth hm, e cept n the houses
of such frends as choose to assocate wth them.
0ffcay, the Prnce remans a bacheor, but t s
sad the woman oves hm truy, and does not ft a
fnger to better the condtons of the bzarre unon.
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Takng of morganatc marrages, after a, s not
father, though a rea prnce, a knd of morganatc
soveregn
Lna Marna ooks actve, though she can order her
e presson away on e pedtons nto dreamand. he
speaks hghy of Doctor chute. ho does not
Yet who thnks of hm n the same way
ngona dresses her har n a beautfu, ottce-
ke fashon: her wavy bandeau are we suted to her
ong eyeashes. er fancy s never at rest. he w
amuse you, though I am afrad the gr w not
sut |ohanna. The ne w be drawn between them
that separates uaker from artst. deu, sster. I
must go and wat affectonatey on poor mother s
dsappontment
0va.
ngona de Marto to Doctor chute.
tyra.
Dear Doctor,
I am very happy wth the Prncess, and the
ueen s very knd ndeed. I assure you that I need
nothng, and, though very gratefu for your nterest
n a that concerns my wefare, I hasten to te you
how much I regret not to be abe to obge you. I
am moray short-sghted, and no eavesdropper, and
there s every chance that the greatest events mght
take pace n my presence wthout my payng, or
choosng to pay, any attenton to them. Mnor
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thngs, such as my persona apprecaton of peope
and surroundngs, I am most wng to communcate.
th ever-renewed thanks,
ngona.
ueen 0rtrude of ngaga to Doctor
chute.
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rom the armory of Court ntrgues, the weapons
you choose are the most dazzng, but not the sharpest.
You coud not be aware of the Emperor s nfatuaton
for a foregn countess, and ths I may forgve. ut
that fasehood about 0va s photograph I wonder
whether you are not conscous of the certtude of
beng despsed. 0ny your sma acts of kndness to
such of my sub|ects as I have recommended to you
prevents me from forbddng you access to our Court
for ever.
0rtrude.
Doctor chute to the ueen of ngaga.
rea.
Madam and most enghtened ueen,
The Emperor of M. s too aged and too
much of an nvad, and Prncess 0va cannot be
e pected to consent to the proposa made to me
yesterday by s Ma|esty s own mbassador. ave
I been rash and bod I have answered the
mbassador s etter n cod terms amost a refusa.
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I encose the etter of s E ceency, couched n
terms whose veed dpomacy Your Ma|esty w
easy penetrate. Your Ma|esty w note how
an ous the mbassador s as regards hs endeavours
to secure the hand of the young and adorabe
Prncess who mght be such a ovey Empress, f
ony the Emperor were not od enough to ook her
own grandfather. . . .
Doctor chute to hs rother, Gaspard chttte,
Country Doctor n chessen ( esa).
Dear rother,
Deny t as you w, my ndomtabe vany
amuses and nterests you, and you are keen to know
how I have drawn Prnce |oachm out of the noose
and nto t agan though ths tme the yoke s
not surmounted by a Poya Crown.
In the frst pace, Prnce |oachm was crazy
about Lna Marna, and much dsncned to espouse
the Prncess of ngaga. In the second nstance,
he s over head and ears n debt, and day assaed
by an army of credtors whose angry voces rng oud
under the hgh roof of hs paace. o when the
Emperor promsed to pay these debts f he renounced
Lna Marna and marred Prncess 0va, poor
|oachm s ove fe nto the pt of greed that es
under ortune s whee. or a arge sum of money
he sod hs ove, and I bought back hs ove by
offerng to end hm a sum even arger. o |oachm
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puffed away hs cousn s and hs father s offers, and
accepted mne returned to hs od ove, and s now
a happy, ght-hearted Prnce, ay, amost as ght-
hearted as ght-braned.
Now to number two: ueen 0rtrude s a perous
woman-potentate, and you shoud have read the
etter she wrote to me when she found that the
proposa of Emperor Leone was fcton. ny other
but Doctor chute woud have trembed on readng
that statey epste. ut Doctor chute pad not
the sghtest attenton to the Poya denuncaton, and
the very same day sent the ueen a etter he had
receved from the mbassador of M. The etter
s worded n terms meant to convnce the ueen
that the mbassador s startng a matrmona cam-
pagn n hs master s behaf, and wants one of the
Prncesses of ngaga to become the wfe of hs
soveregn. I herewth encose a copy of the etter
to you.
Your devoted brother,
chute.
(Encosure)
Dear Doctor,
The Emperor s most an ous to secure
your servces n ths matter. s Ma|esty says, n
hs own eegant rench, Ee, et pas d autre. o do
your utmost. I know my request s safe wth you.
Ee, et pas d autre.
Lous Ludwooke.
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he, and no other, s the transaton of the
Emperor s rench n|uncton. 0ny, by de he
means a spendd racng mare. The horse beongs
to the Prnce of reneurech, to ths very same
Prnce |oachm, who s awfuy proud of the bruta
nd the Emperor has set hs heart on gettng her.
The ueen of ngaga, bnded by mothery
affecton, w mstake the mare for her daughter, and
thus a respte s procured, whch I sha make good
use of by tryng n reaty to persuade the od Em-
peror that the Prncess 0va s a ft match for hm.
I sha go n |anuary to Estaa, because I must begn
to mpress on ngona the fact that she s dear and
necessary to me. hat w Court fe deveop n
that strange, cever, bewtchng and bewderng
gr
Georgna von dngen to rauen Toptz.
Taarbruck.
I am so horrby sad, my dear rauen It woud
requre the breadth of the sea to separate me from
my troubes, athough I know no reason for ths
wave of despondency. Yet how many among the
hghest and most ovey madens n Europe must
envy the brde-eect of Emperor Matthew nd the
Emperor s so knd to me. In a week I sha be hs
wfe. I am not frghtened, but awed by the conc-
dence s t a concdence ony that the pro-
gramme of the festvtes whch are to take pace at
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our marrage ncude my arrva on the rver n a
fower-crowned boat. My dream st haunts me. . . .
The Emperor s here, wth some of hs gentemen
one of them, Count ata, I have seen before n
that terrbe dream. e s dark, wth ght grey
eyes, and s very ta. The costumes worn by the
Emperor s tran are magnfcent haf- satc n
gorgeousness and forcby remnd me of what we
read about the u ury dspayed by the Poes and
ther kngs.
nna Pauna s beng hurred off to the atar.
er future husband, the ng of Presto, s pan and
sow much oder than my poor sster, who accepts
the match wth meek compance, and has never
rased her tear-staned eyes to the ng s face, or she
woud reco. ... I cannot remove the weght of her
destny from my shouders.
I hear that n the Impera Paace at rena, |ust
beneath the apartments that are beng furnshed for
me, an empty coffn s to be seen, a gapng |aw of
darkness, between ta ghts. I am very tred. I
receve day tweve or fourteen deputatons from the
dfferent provnces and towns of the Empre. The
men are ushered n they bow ow, I e tend my
hand, whch they kss. nd I must not say one
snge word to them. They are not of a rank that
enttes them to hear the sound of my august voce,
and the honour of seeng me breathe must suffce.
I am afrad fe n rena w be du. ut
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Matthew oves me that s a comfort and the fact
that Lna Marna, the actress who s now the mor-
ganatc wfe of Prnce |oachm, s the best horse-
woman n Europe. so t s a |oy to thnk of
seeng you whenever I am at berty to do as I
pease.
Georgna.
P . nna Pauna s so much of a prncess that
she cannot muster a tthe of ndgnaton aganst her
fate
Prncess hema of ngaga to her ster,
Prncess 0va.
Dear 0va,
I am rather nervous as regards ths heaveny
ntercourse between |ohanna and |ohn Grey. Do
you thnk ngona may create some dverson
0f course, |ohanna does not behave otherwse than
shoud any other prncess of roya bood and yet
and yet, I do not fee happy about the stua-
ton. omehow, I rey on ngona. The town s
preparng to gve mother a fne recepton on her
return.
|ohn Grey to the Prncess |ohanna of
ngaga.
Madam,
The Ineffabe, the Imtabe, the Uncon-
querabe, the Inmtabe be wth you. or ths
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gorous and ong-ooked-for e change of sous
between mysef and Your Poya ghness we must
wat a few weeks onger. I am not yet prepared for
the hgh bss whch may ony be mne for one short
mnute. I needs must wat and pray.
|ohn Grey.
The Duchess von dngen to the Prnce
|oachm of reneurech.
My dear Nephew,
thousand tmes I thank you for your
knd nformaton but are you gnorant of the aw
whch orders me to reman unnformed of a fact
obno ous to Poyaty, unnformed, even f the
news be trumpeted n my ears o I congratuate
you wthout venturng to say on what occason. . . .
Georgna s damonds are the bggest I have seen, and
her Court mante, studded wth sapphres and pears,
s absoutey dazzng. I hope she may prove a
ovabe and affectonate knswoman to you. he s
very fond of sotude and rdng.
Your affectonate unt.
Lna Marna, Countess of Mamorda, to Doctor
chute.
Dear Doctor,
My new tte sts uncomfortaby on me,
ke a parrot on a rose-bush. you do your
utmost to secure a pace for me n one of the
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pavons by the rver I know I am not entted
to an offca pace, but I must be there, and watch
the arrva of the ovey Prncess. Prnce |oachm
says, Doctor chute s the ony man who can
arrange that for you.
Lna.
ngona de Marto to Lna Marna,
Countess of Mamorda.
|Estaa.
Dear Madam,
May I congratuate you on your marrage
and the tte that has been bestowed upon you by
s Ma|esty Mamorda the name sounds pea-
santy to my memory, as I once took a ong wak
wth the dear ssters of Innsbruck, and our stro ed
us to a pace romantc ndeed, the runs of an od
caste beongng to Prnce |oachm, your august
husband. Ivy and heather covered the abandoned
stones of weather-beaten starcases, and from a
shroud of vy the turrets ooked down upon us. 0h,
Madam, how can I suffcenty thank Doctor chute
for havng brought me nto touch wth the Prncesses
of ngaga, wth the Court, wth Estaa, and ths
country a and of dreams where vsonares and
poets must perforce e cam, ere we have reached
the goden and radant goa that mnstres seek
0h, the baze and the beauty the breezes scatterng
sweet scents over tempes and sea, the gracefu forms
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of hs whose harmonous curves must have been
mouded by the feet of dancng Muses to the tunes
of ther brother, poo I have surrendered mysef
to the oveness of the pace. rom the wndows of
my chamber n the Paace I can ook upon waters
ustrous both n ay and hstory. sunny shrne,
once dedcated to Dana, rases ts coumns aganst
the sky. My thoughts carry me back ages, and I
|on eena, Uysses and Nauscaa sngng on the
sunt shore.
The spe of ths country does not e upon ts
ruers. The Prncesses, the youngest e cepted, do
not care for the umnous gory craded n the bosom
of the Past. They prefer modern en|oyments to art.
They en|oy tenns, rdng, and takng over the
events at other Courts. They are very nce to me,
and qute struck by my tastes, though not offended,
as were the dear ssters n Tyro. They try to fee
and to comprehend and the beakness of the
fcttous fe they are obged to ead sometmes
makes them sgh, and envy even poor ngona.
The recepton whch greeted the ueen and her
daughter was pompous. I had never heard cannon
before, and the shouts sounded terrfc over the
waters as we entered the harbour, escorted by the
feet. My nerves gave way. I fet as f an e cess
of |oy and pan shook the ar and took hod of my
beng. I trembed and coapsed, and had to be
taken to a seat on the deck, whe the ueen and
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the Prncess, a unmoved by the sounds, kept
wavng ther kerchefs to the crowd on shore, and
smng bengnanty.
The Prnce Consort s of mdde heght, has
neutra-tnted beard and eyes, s pote, and even
knd n a sort of shftng and rapd way, as f the
ground burned under hs feet. e possesses a
coectve ntegence, somethng ke what a
dctonary composed of short e panatons of bg
words mght have, f the dctonary coud speak.
e ooks mens when he does not say them. e
s a vng and perpetua approbaton. s daughters
ove hm. s wfe awats hs eterna admraton
wth apparent tmdty and fear, as f she were
awatng rebuke, and she decares, wth an ar of
profound reef, The Prnce approves, The
Prnce s charmed as f anythng ese were
e pected from hm, and as f her conduct woud
change even f the Prnce dd not approve.
ueen 0rtrude s two years oder than the Prnce,
but ooks hs senor by many more. Though her
eyes and voce are st so wonderfuy young, her
pnched face and heavy, sodery gat eap over the
fftes. or adornment, or peasure, or success of
any sort as a queen she does not care. he does not
take her person nto any account. he adores her
chdren and her sub|ects, every one of them, from
the street urchn to the Premer, and therefore
shows no favourtsm. The ony creature whom she
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treats wth speca attenton, outsde her kngdom
and her famy crce, s Doctor chute, because he
has succeeded n convncng her that wth hm es
the possbty of gettng monarchs to marry the
Prncesses. Prncess hema s by far the
prettest and ceverest of the three. There are
moments when one mght take her for an odasque,
but she s kept straght n mb and features by
educaton. Instructon the grs have none, or ne t
to none. Prncess |ohanna has nherted her
mother s heavness, and s theoogcay ncned.
he s becomng nvoved n sou ntrcaces, and
frmy beeves that the gates of the Infnte are
more key to open before the sesame of er Poya
ghness the Prncess of ngaga than at the
request of some more humbe conqueror. I sym-
pathze wth her ssters, whe to Prncess |ohanna I
am never abe to show any warmth. he wthers
me wth a breath. Prncess 0va s romanesque,
devod of ambton but fu of vanty.
ha I descrbe one of my day programmes to
you, dear Madam nce you are so good as to
nqure about my fe and dongs here, I am sendng
you a my feengs and mpressons n a bunde. I
am an eary rser, and I run by mysef aong one of
the many paths that ead out of the Poya park,
whe the sounds of the mornng buges echo through
the town. No haze, no coud to shadow sky or
andscape. The perfect cearness, as that of a
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penced drawng, reveas every moton, whether of
sanctuary or tree. To the Dana tempe I turn my
footsteps. The tempe es n a wood of aures n
boom. Upon the broken marbe coumns I st for
an hour of compete berty. Yesterday, at the foot
of the Dana tempe, I met wth an adventure. I
had begun to sng that song you ove, n whch the
favourte composer of ng rederc has set forth a
the strength of eementary |oy and eementary
combat. To me the contrast between the savagey
ntense stran of that modern gant barbaran ruer
of harmones and the cassca perfecton and
remnscences of the spot where I stood, was strkng.
nd I thought to mysef, The gant s, perhaps,
the son of the wd god Donysos, the god whose
works ferment ke wne, whe the breath of hs
rva, poo, aone strs the aure wood around me.
s I sang, I became nto cated as wth a dvne
moment, and I nvted the rens to emerge from
ther natve brne and to sng fercey by my sde.
nd the foam curded on the top of the waves, on
the very spot where the prma beauty of Venus s
sad to have dazzed the sun. I sang but suddeny
I fet that a presence, as yet nvsbe, was stenng
to me.
Then a man stepped out of the wood, makng the
branches ruste. e was young, and hs fney
chseed features quvered responsvey to my fancy.
s emotons, whatever they mght have been,
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concded wth mne so far as to cause hm to say the
very thng I had fet hut a few moments before :
ere Donysos s burnng away the coo purty of
Dana s abode, and causng to trembe the sster of
poo, who oves not passonate e presson and
yearnngs.
The words were n e ceent German, though I
coud see the stranger spoke the anguage ony n
deference to me, because I had used German n my
song. Then he added n quck, qud Itaan,
orgve me. You cannot be other than Itaan.
I shook my head.
Then, n a matter-of-fact tone, re you not the
new ectrce of ther Poya ghnesses I bowed
my head n assent.
ow s t I have not seen you wth the Prncess
|ohanna asked he.
0h, the Prncess |ohanna does not requre my
servces, answered I. There was somethng so
rresstby corda and yet gente n the stranger s
manner that I fet qute at my ease wth hm,
and added, The Prncess |ohanna does not ke
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hensbe, n a tongue unknown, then sad aoud, I
mght have guessed as much.
hy shoud you dvne that the Prncess does
not ke me I asked. Do I, even at frst sght,
ook unovabe and repeng
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e bent one of the fower-aden aure branches
towards me t the rosy bossom touched and fed
my ap. ow me, sad he, to make a compar-
son between you and these fowers. Ther sme
smacks of btterness, and f you put your ps to the
petas you woud fnd the favour of sea-sat rests on
them. Dark are the gossy eaves that enshrne the
fowers. Many prefer to them the etherea and
vouptuous sme of roses. The shadow that the
aure casts on the earth s sght as ts form, and
bowed heads aone, heads whose fervour and yearn-
ng prevent them from towerng hgh, can pass
beneath the branches. s t s wth the aure and
hs fowers, so wth you, sombre maden. s the
rose to the aure s oft preferred, and the odour of
the aure dsked and shunned, so the eyes that w
ook wth ove and ardour upon your dangerous eyes
are mted and hgh-doomed. e spoke n tones
prophetc, though famar, and I was ess ntent
upon hs words than on the effort to dscover where
I had heard hm before, and why ths conversaton
between us brought the convcton of an event ong
foreseen. e drew the aure branch back to ts
pace agan, but not before I had tasted the btterness
of the fowers.
Then you are gong to spend the whoe wnter
at the Court of ngaga sad he.
nd s ths wnter asked I, pontng to the
foam-crowned waves and the aabaster spendour of
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the horzon, whose azure was turned to whteness by
the rsng of the sun.
e seemed not to heed my remark, but contnued,
You must be cautous, e tremey cautous. Court
fe s naught but snares and pts. tudy the
character of the Court peope who surround you. Do
not rey on the young Prncesses, or ther affecton,
however true and warm t may seem. They may
care for you even so much as to fee that you have
become ndspensabe, and yet gve you up. The
art taught to prnces from the crade s the art of
gvng every one and everythng up but ther poston
and ther dutes. Poya duty s not compatbe wth
persona attachment or persona en|oyment.
ut Prncess 0va decares we sha never part,
even when she marres and Prncess hema
Nonsense you are naught but a foosh chd,
he nterrupted. Prncess 0va w soon get
|eaous of your good ooks, and Prncess hema of
your ceverness. s to Prncess |ohanna, she has
not traveed far enough nto the Infnte to forget
who she s. he has packed away her tte and her
rank and her weath n a sma vase out of sght,
but the vase s ever at hand, ready to yed the
hdden treasures. I see much troube n store for
you. e sghed. I can nether hep nor fore-
warn suffcenty. s umnous eyes wandered
over the sea. I have known you but a few mnutes,
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sad he, and t seems that ages of frendshp bnd
me to you.
Is t not snguar answered I. The same
sort of feeng pervades me, or I shoud not have
aowed you to tak n ths way of my dear Prncesses.
Prncess 0va and Prncess hema I mean.
Prncess |ohanna
a, ha Prncess |ohanna s not frendy, what
you may ca your e dea I wonder whether you
possess a be dea, after a e aughed quety.
I do not understand you, sad I.
e pucked one of the aure fowers off, and threw
t between my fngers. There, sad he, take
your embem away wth you hard to wn, dark and
sght s the shadow of the aure-tree. . . . nd may
I ask, f you are not Itaan, what are you
I payed wth hs curosty. n frcan, may-
be an Egyptan
No Iss, and no savage, sad he, and hs eyes
shone strangey fathomess and warm.
I sha te you what I am when ne t we
meet.
ere, or at Court he nqured.
Do you go to the Court I asked, somehow
surprsed, as I had earnt that the rues of etquette
are very strct, and that very few persons were
admtted nto the crce presded over by the ueen
and her daughters. Then I mmedatey made up
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my mnd that the unknown was the son of a foregn
ambassador, or hmsef n the dpomatc servce.
I see the young Prncesses hema and
|ohanna from tme to tme, and the Prnce Consort
very often.
Ths ast statement threw me off the track. The
Prnce receves the dpomats ony once or twce a
year. . . . Then I rose to eave, as the Prncesses
generay desre my attendance at haf-past eeven.
The stranger bowed ow, and touched my hand wth
an ungoved pam. deu good-bye, sad he.
nd remember beware Put the aure-bossom
n your har.
Unconscousy I obeyed the somewhat mperous
command, and, as he was very ta, he ooked down
on the corona of tress and cur and smed, sayng,
The fower s happy there, as the moon amdst dark
waves.
s I re-entered the Paace gardens at the gate eft
open through my careessness, I met the Prncess
|ohanna. he hed an mmense bouquet of yeow
roses n her hand, and ooked ess prm than usua
but the gance she fashed haughty at me fe ke
cod ran upon my sou, whe I made the deep Court
reverence whch Prncess 0va had taught me.
Prncess |ohanna dd not degn to greet me other
than by a frgd bow. I must have offended her n
some way.
e unch at one o cock. etween haf-past
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eeven and the tme when we go to dress for unch I
stay wth the Prncesses, ook over the etters they
receve, wrte at ther dctaton, sng to them, and
try to teach them a ot of sma and bg thngs of
whch they are gnorant. In many respects they
are as devod of knowedge as a peasant gr, and
most of the eementary nstructon bestowed upon
the young has been wthhed from them. Prncess
0va s ntegent, Prncess hema fu of
humour. It woud requre a the eoquence of Ptt
and Mrabeau, together wth the heght of the
maayas and the voence of the Maestrom, taken
as symbos, to gve an dea of ther nave and yet we-
traned egotsm, whch es n the nevtabe
certtude that the very best thngs that can be
thought of were created and meant for them soey.
Yet they do not ack a knd of natura goodness, and
under the genera tte of the Poor they nduge
another trat of ther character: the ove of showng
off. ny act of benevoence whch they perform
must gve brth to some anecdote and popuarze
them. The ueen s more human and humane than
her daughters. In every sma kndness bestowed
upon me by the Prncesses one may read the words,
ee how knd we can be Dd you ever e pect
such great bengs as we are to prove so obgng
and so condescendng nd yet I adore them,
and anythng that mght be sad dsparagngy
or done to ther dsadvantage woud greve and
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offend me. They ack nether refnement nor nobe
nstncts.
t uncheon the Prnce Consort aone s very
takatve, reates the noves he has read and de-
scrbes hs drves. The equerres-n-watng and the
chamberans, as we as the offcer who s on guard,
sten wth rapt attenton, as f every syabe that
fas from the august ps means fe or death
to them. The ueen s absorbed, the Prncesses
e change whspered |okes, often |ohanna fas nto a
deep revere. fter uncheon I am free to spend
an hour n my own apartment, but generay the
Prncesses hema and 0va nvade my prvacy,
wander about the chamber, open my abums and
queston me. They know tte of the word at
arge, and are ncredby apart from the reates
of fe. t three we go out together, ther Poya
ghnesses and mysef, n an enormous barouche
wth red-vered footmen and coachman, bg back
horses and purpe harness. The foursh of trumpets,
the saute of men-at-arms greet the state equpage
as we eave the Paace court, and a aong the
streets the passers-by bow ow and gaze after us n
sympathy, reverence and wonderment, whe the poor
Prncesses move ther gddy heads to rght and eft,
and sme and get dreadfu headaches, t we reach
the outskrts of the town. Then, wth a sgh of reef
and cappng of hands, they snk back on the cushons
and chat. The marveous and eoquent grandeur of
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the andscape appeas to them, though not n the
same way as to me. They ove ths country not
because t s thers, and gorous and beautfu, but
because of the sundry ncdents of ther chdhood,
whch are a-mportant to them.
hen we get home, the Prncesses receve a few
young grs beongng to the hghest fames of the
and and who have been ther paymates ong
before ther teens yet st there e sts between the
Poya madens and ther companons a knd of
foosh constrant, often nterrupted by ttterngs.
esdes, the preoccupaton of not bestowng more
nterest on one than on another spos a games.
0n such occasons I sng or read some poems aoud.
ew men are nvted to the tea-partes of ther
Poya ghnesses. mong the prveged I may
note Count Guo, the young and good-ookng
captan who commands the roya guard an od
organst the Prncesses Engsh teacher and, from
tme to tme, one of the Cabnet Mnsters, and an
ambassador or two.
I take my dnner aone n my own dnng-room,
because dnner s the ony famy gatherng that the
Poya famy en|oy n strct prvacy. I rather en|oy
the sotary mea n the ofty wood-paneed chamber,
the mmense number of ta ackeys that gde ke
shadows around the tabe, gorgeousy decorated wth
fne porcean and god pate a ths n honour of
poor tte ngona de Marto, who sts there
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crushed and sent, though awake to the spendour
of her envronment. Dsh after dsh comes n, s
presented, then sent away, t I amost fa aseep
over the ceremony.
In the evenng I rarey even catch a gmpse of the
Prncesses. t frst they asked me to go down to ther
apartments, but afterwards I heard that ther Court
ades were becomng |eaous of the preference thus
shown, and so they gave up my socety. ueen
0rtrude sometmes orders my attendance, as I wrte
Engsh, German and Itaan better than any of her
prvate secretares, and mportant etters are eft to
my care. ut ths the secretares must never know,
ese they woud hate me, pry upon me, and end by
payng me some ugy trck. The Prncesses, when
they cannot send for me or come up-stars, wrte
sma notes, of course. together, I am happy, and
I hope you can say as much, dear Madam. The
ueen often mentons you most kndy.
Yours gratefuy,
ngona.
The Prncess 0va to gnorna ngona
de Marto.
Do not come down to tea, dear. e are to be
a du tro, my ssters and mysef, watng for the
vst of the Premer, who cannot arrve before s .
here dd you say you met Count Guo ths
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The Prncess |ohanna of ngaga to the
GN0PIN DEL M PT0.
er Poya ghness the Prncess |ohanna of
ngaga woud be gratefu f the gnorna de
Marto woud eave off her mornng vsts to the
tempe of Dana by the sea. er Poya ghness
s at present makng a sketch of the tempe, and
the fear of beng dsturbed spos er Poya
ghness s mood.
The Prncess hema of ngaga to the
gnorna de Marto.
Dear ngona,
I wsh I coud see you, but we are to do
wthout you the whoe of ths afternoon, and I am so
an ous to know who the handsome young man s
whom you meet every mornng on the steps of
Dana s sanctuary. Mother s prvate secretary says
he s, perhaps, a marne god. e must tak ths
affar over wth 0va and yoursef n your room
ths evenng.
hema.
ueen 0rtrude of ngaga to the gnorna
de Marto.
I shoud be very sorry to be obged to chde you,
my dear chd, but you must not eave the Paace
before noon for the future.
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The Prncess |ohanna of ngaga to Mr.
|ohn Grey.
Dear Mr. Grey,
I sha not be abe to attend your teachng3
by the sea ths Mornng. The pansh-Itaan
wench wth whom my mother and my ssters were
so nfatuated but a few hours ago s gvng them a
word of troube. You know how strct the Prnce
Consort and the ueen are as regards moras. I
fee sure we sha get rd of the uncomfortabe tte
stranger. omehow her sngng and her manners
make me shver. You beeve n presentments, don t
you
|ohanna.
|ohn Grey to the Prncess |ohanna of
ngaga.
I crave permsson to wat upon Your Poya gh-
ness as soon as possbe.
|ohn Grey.
The Prncess |ohanna of ngaga to |ohn
Grey.
as dear Mr. Grey, I am uttery deprved of
berty for the moment. ut wrte what you want to
say. I ove your etters.
|ohanna.
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|ohn Grey to the Prncess |ohanna of
ngaga.
Madam,
I must eave Estaa ths very evenng, and
I woud say farewe to one who but wrtten words
are weak besdes, they dare not utter what aone
my heart knows. Yes, I must eave we must part.
deu. The radant hours I have known on the
shores of the ngagan sea w be the one brght
remembrance of a fe whose am es n the Infnte.
In deep and reverent and a-pervadng grattude
adeu.
|ohn Grey.
The Prncess |ohanna of ngaga to the
Prncess 0va.
0va 0va mother s wth me ecturng, and
I cannot go down to you, and I am haf dazed wth
gref. |ohn Grey s sang ths evenng. ee hm
keep hm back from the boat ave me, my sster,
save me I ove hm.
|ohanna.
|ohn Grey to the Prncess |ohanna of
ngaga.
Madam,
The Prncess 0va has ordered me to stay,
and perforce I obey. ut there are peope at your
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Court whose hatred and power I must avod. To-
morrow I sha revea the truth to Your Poya
ghness.
|ohn Grey to the gnorna ngona de
Marto.
To-morrow, before dawn, near the phn whose
hands pay wth the waves. th |oy do I obey the
sweet summons.
|ohn Grey.
ngona de Marto to Lna Marna,
Countess of Mamorda.
Dear Madam,
It s more than two months snce I have
wrtten, and your knd and numerous etters have
remaned unanswered otherwse than by short
teegrams to say that I am n good heath. Yes,
I pead guty. I must seem ungratefu. Perhaps,
too, you may have guessed the truth the terrbe,
the deghtfu and perous truth. I oved. . . . nd
now, oh madame, I am the most unhappy mad ave,
and around my dy are grouped so many dffcutes,
nay, even dangers, that I scarcey dare send ths
etter by post. My mad w take t to the boat,
the Itaan mad for whose good offces and devoted
care I am ndebted to you.
|ohn Grey Dd I ever te you that the young
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man whom I met n Dana s tempe s caed |ohn
Grey, and beongs to the ngo- a on race e
was born n merca, but hs parents were Engsh.
Never had I supposed that hs supernaturay
brght eyes coud read so far nto my heart, that hs
words, meant to open the word of fath and mraces
to me, woud revea the one sweet teachng fe can
hod. my beng vbrates wth the storm and
meody of a great passon. To hm my thoughts and
my dreams are transucent as gates of crysta. e
oves me owy and radanty have the buds that
sprang up n the wderness of my sou burst nto
fower. ut I must eave the present, and reate how
the fery events that are now takng pace orgnated.
fter that frst meetng near the aure wood, I
wandered every mornng through the same paths,
and every mornng at the same pace I found |ohn
Grey, and every mornng, aso, the Prncess |ohanna
of ngaga passed me at the garden-gates, wth
that same mperous and dsdanfu gaze. I after-
wards earnt that she, too, went to meet |ohn Grey
n the tempe. ut I must not foresta facts that
succeeded each other wth amost gddyng rapdty,
t they have brought me to the crss that you sha
read reveaed. o far, though I have been weghted
down wth sufferng, my courage has not been
daunted. It s ke the Toedo swords I saw n my
chdhood, n the warror town whose red aracene
was are ued to seep by the hoarse whspers of
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the Ta|o. Methnks I st hear the guttura pro-
nuncaton of the wd and dark rver s name, me-
thnks the sound of stee that fs the haughty
armoury on the h st strkes my ear. s one by
one the swords sprng to fe out of the fre, wth
deafenng crash and wth the weght of an mmense
stone they are sent aganst a rock, and as the vaant
stee strkes the stone, a thousand sparks gtter, as
f n homage to the natve eement whose strength
es n them: and the stee seems to fy to peces,
and wth beatng heart the ooker-on thnks, Now
s the handsome sword broken nd o t regans
ts suppe nervousness, and re-appears gstenng and
powerfu as before. o t s wth the sou of
ngona, dear Madam.
s I tod you, I am often commanded by the ueen
to wat upon her somewhat secrety. er Ma|esty s
prvate secretares stck to ther prveges, and
woud,not gve up to me a tthe of ther work. ut
everyone of the servants n the Paace beongs heart
and sou to the person who pays hm for the peasure
of gettng quck and sure nformaton. Thus the
ueen, the Prnce Consort and the Prncesses are
ever sped upon by ther menas, and the danger
that mght come through some foregn nfuence s
averted. oon, n a few venomous phrases, |ohn
der, the eder of the two secretares, made me
understand that my evenng vsts to the ueen s
brary were deemed hghy offensve to hm and hs
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coeague. 0f course, I coud not eave off obeyng
the ueen s orders, and I suppose that ths persst-
ence on my part, together wth a few audatory
words bestowed on me by er Ma|esty, must have
knded the wrath of both my enemes. 0n the
other hand, the Prncess |ohanna showed me open
hostty and s even sad to have caed me Tutt-
frutt, a nckname now gven to me by most when I
am not there, and by many even n my presence.
To those who move defty through the thck and
thn of Court ntrgues and denquences these
symptoms woud have proved the petres prophetc
of comng storms, but I was ne perenced.
0ne day I was sngng n the ueen s musc-room,
and er Ma|esty was accompanyng me on the pano.
The Prncesses aone were there, but once or twce
I had notced that the tapestry n front of me moved
to and fro. I knew er Ma|esty s secretares often
worked durng the daytme at a sma bureau
behnd that tapestry, so the observaton was ony a
casua one, and dd not worry me. esdes, I had
never fet so eated by the beauty of the musc and
the surroundngs as on that drear December after-
noon. rom the depths of the neghbourng con-
servatory the voces of brds, the gente grace of
e otc trees and perfumed foregn fowers greeted
ears and eyes. tatues and vases and gorgeous
embrodery were on every sde, and the dstant and
reguar spash of a ta |et d eau mnged wth the
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reguar breathng of the sea, whch rose and fe n
purpe fods on the horzon.
I had met |ohn Grey that very mornng, and he
had tod me the od, od tae, the tae that runs from
generaton to generaton n nks of god and fre.
|ohn Grey s frequenty nvted to ecture at the
Paace, the Prncess |ohanna beng one of hs
keenest pups. he reves n occut scences, and
I am tod that the archbshop has more than once
ponted out to the ueen that the Prncess s un-
orthodo theores are hghy bameworthy. ut
the ueen never ntrudes on her daughters ntmate
sentments. he s aso perfecty aware of the
scanda caused by the open preference the Prncess
0va shows to the young Count Guo but she
knows that she w soon get Prncess 0va off and
then the frtaton w be crushed out.
I sang that beautfuy pathetc appea to the
shades n ades whch Gck has made 0rpheus
sng as he descended nto the sombre ream n
search of Eurydce, and as I caed on the mercy of
the terrfc host and camoured to gan ther atten-
ton and ther pty n favour of my ove, a sense of
mmnent per took hod of me and made my frame
shver and my voce rng t the hgh-cenged
room trembed, and the dstraught harmony ran
aong the oak gaeres and made the wooden
coumns creak, and drowned the sound of |et d eau
and the waves.
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uddeny, as f rent by a vengefu hand, the
tapestry was drawn asde, and an angry form tower-
ng above the danty beauty of bronze and marbe
stood n front of me. The Prncess |ohanna s
features, quverng wth wrath, were scarcey
recognzabe, so dstorted were they by strong and
confctng emotons. Mechancay the ueen s
fngers fe from the keys, but I coud not, for the
fe of me, stop my sngng, and whe the Poya
Nemess fted her threatenng arms and drected
them towards me, I went on cang upon the dre
dvntes of he. Lke a wounded tgress, n a
moment she was by my sde, and I amost reeed
wth the feeng that her fngers woud cose on my
throat. as I had forgotten that |ohanna of
ngaga s a Prncess, and ncapabe, therefore,
of any voent acton. erosm, vengeance, hatred
s not n the ne of a we-brought-up young gr,
and a Poya ghness. owy, as I receded, her
arms recovered a natura poston, the urd gare
ded out of her eyes, and wth a yawn, the Prncess
sad quety, Dear gnorna, do eave off that
dreadfu sngng Your voce |ars on my nerves.
It s fase, my poor gr. I never heard anythng
more approachng a cross between tn-kette and
wood-saw than those pzzcat.
Now, remember I was rdng the strong steed of
a gorous composton. Prncess |ohanna s words
fe upon me wth crashng cruety. I was fresh
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from my enthusasm over my own performance and
the mmense possbtes that art hed n store for
me. The nsut took my breath away. urred
heart-beats fed my bosom. I gasped and found
no approprate answer to the foosh and apparenty
useess offence. Curses and shreks crowded n my
parched throat, and I shoud have faen to the
ground but for the prm support of the knd ueen s
arms. he had never before openy showed her
sympathy to me, and I knew she dd so on ths
occason n an nstnctvey automatc way, from
sheer nborn compasson for the weakness of a human
beng confronted by a superor strength whch the
sad doorous beng s bound to respect. The
Prncess |ohanna aughed a short, dersve augh,
and added, The draughts that pay about the
tempe of Dana must have affected your voce,
whch may account for ts unusua harshness.
arsh, ndeed, your voce has aways sounded to me,
and to many. ut you must certany have taken
cod n one of your oney waks by the sea.
he ad an ugy stress on the word oney.
I gnored the nsnuaton, and faced the young
Prncess smarty enough, as I had by that tme got
rd of the oppressve emoton whch had turned me
to stone.
The ueen fdgeted as I quety retorted, If
Your Poya ghness knows anythng about the
ancent detes of the and, Your Poya ghness
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shoud fee satsfed that the pure, cod Dana s the
ft protectress of madens.
The way n whch I sad the short syabe f,
and engthened t to ts utmost, the open auson to
her proverbay uncutured tranng, brought a vvd
bush to the Prncess s cheeks, and prudenty she
refraned from enterng nto a mythoogca dscusson
wth m6. ut turnng her head away from me, she
addressed hersef to her mother, and sad, Mamma
dear, t appears that your head ackey s qute a
cever Latn and Greek schoar such a marveous
dscovery though, of course, every one knows that
those who enter the servce of a regnng soveregn
are obged to be earned and quck and entertanng
they are pad for t.
|ust as prncesses are pad to be pote and
ptfu, or at east to contro ther bad tempers.
I am afrad you are forgettng yoursef most
sady, my poor chd, sad ueen 0rtrude, wth a
sgh of -conceaed annoyance. The Prncess, my
daughter, has the rght to make an observaton to
you wthout rousng you to such ack of respect. If
the Prncess, who s a great and sncere artst
(Prncess |ohanna does not know the dfference
between Pue, rtanna, and Chopn s Concerto)
has favoured you wth one or two observatons, you
shoud receve them gratefuy at her hands.
My senses were turbuent wth ndgnaton and
passon, and I coud have demoshed the Prncess s
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artstc pretensons and ground my teeth at her, as
the savageness of my nature strred me to the quck,
but for another movement of the tapestry, the heavy
fods of whch had covered the door through whch
the Prncess had made her unwecome appearance.
he now stood wth her back to the tapestry, and
sowy the heavy curtan rose, and behnd t I
perceved the stawart and reassurng form of |ohn
Grey. e fted hs fnger to hs ps sgnfcanty,
and f ed on me a gaze mporng and adorng. I
bowed my head, an acton whch the ueen mstook
for a movement of remorse, shame, and perhaps
admraton for the quates and artstc tastes of her
daughter. The Prncess tauntngy sad, In the
ong run, the gnorna de Marto w understand
that my advce w end by brngng her out a tte.
e hate commoners and young grs who are not
born arstocrats are abe to reman common, but
for hnts gven n moments of kndness and pty for
ther uncouth ways.
Evdenty the Prncess desred to put me off my
guard and to rouse my temper. he entertaned
the preposterous hope that the cose of our conversa-
ton woud be such as to render my presence at
Court mpossbe. he had a tte touch of the
Machave n her sme, but I thwarted her endeavour
the ook and gesture of |ohn Grey were nter-
twned wth hers, and whe the atter sad, Go
away dsappear, the tender, umnous eyes of |ohn
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Grey sad, You must stay. I ove you. e sent.
tay nd I obeyed the sweeter summons, and
made a ow curtsey as the Prncess accompaned the
ueen out of the room.
In a second |ohn Grey was by my sde. e knet
before me, kssed the hem of my dress and my hands.
I asked, hy are you here hat have you to
do wth a ths s ustrous eyes opened
wde, he took my fngers between hs burnng
pams.
Love s the Creator s dvnest work, he sad,
and the strength of true ove must be abe to
remove a hndrances.
ut why are you at the Paace at ths hour, and
coseted wth that atrocous, yn -eyed, stuffy-soued
Prncess |ohanna
Every day when your voce traves through the
varous apartments of the Paace, I contrve to be
here, because I thrst and hunger to hear you.
ut how are you on terms of such great frend-
shp wth the Prncess |ohanna as to spend the
afternoon n her prvate studo, where she assembes
a the forms of ugness n her daubs
Don t you know the Prncess |ohanna deghts
n my teachngs prtuasm s her fad, and I
have made many dscoveres n the fed of the
Infnte. e are now workng together wth an
am n vew whch, f we reach t, may open the
door to a thousand other e perments and trumphs.
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The Prncess s curosty as regards the orgn of her
nner sef s nsatabe and unbounded.
Dear Mr. Grey, can you reay make me beeve
that you have not yet found out that the Prncess
|ohanna s beneath the average woman a foosh
gnoramus whose rank aone enttes her to some
attenton on the part of her mother s sub|ects
efore you go on wth your hgh-fown dscoveres,
do stop a bt and cast a shrewd gance nto the
abyss of er Poya ghness s nothngness.
gnorna, gnorna de Marto, you dske the
Prncess, who has more than one reason to envy you,
and whose behavour towards you has |ust proved
very offensve. I w not put on tra the Prncess s
abtes. he s a prncess, and nothng more.
nd somethng ess, besde, I retorted. he
s not a prncess, much ess a woman. er peevsh
personaty has not one spark of roya or femnne
dgnty n t. he s not even cever.
Pease, pease do not e cte the Prncess s natura
most natura anmosty aganst you, answered
|ohn Grey, wth casped hands. e resembed one
of ottce s archanges as he stood there, wth the
background of foage behnd hm.
Lke a satete round the dazzng star that
eads t on, I revoved round the probem, why
dd |ohn Grey take such pans to soothe my
rate sense of n|ustce Then, wth a gush, the
reveaton came: If you go, I must eave Estaa,
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and haf the work I am tryng to acheve s not yet
done. ut I am bound to foow you, bound by
some aw stronger than my w. Love, after a, s
but a knd of rude handng. I have to foow you,
however crue the mandate may prove.
|ohn Grey, I answered, speak franky. Is
the desre to fnsh your work the ony reason for
your wsh to reman n ths country
Yes, he answered qucky and after that a
scene such as overs deght to treasure n ther
memory mght have foowed, but for the entrance
of a ackey, who announced that the ueen re-
quested Mr. |ohn Grey to |on er Ma|esty n the
Prnce Consort s apartments. nd so I was eft to
mysef.
ut the soothng bam of sotude was soon taken
from me by the smutaneous and |oyfu entrance of
er Ma|esty s prvate secretares. They aughed,
and whsted, and nudged each other, and stared at
me, then burst nto peas of merrment, then gazed
agan, so that I surveyed mysef n the mrror, from
head to foot, n the fear that some deta n my
attre had caed forth ther ungracous ft of harty.
I found mysef correcty attred, and my face st
bore the refecton of |ohn Grey s caressng eyes.
t they went on ttterng, paced the room, danced
a few mnuet steps, curtseyed and danced agan, and
when they found that I pad tte or no attenton
to ther vugar and mpertnent pantomme, they
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consuted n ow voces then, sprngng forward
wth e traordnary swftness, they asked me n the
same breath
nd s not the gnorna de Marto deghted that
her admrer and over shoud en|oy the honour of a
prvate audence wth both the ueen and the
Prnce Consort n honour unusua ndeed.
as any one ever compared a |eaous courter to an
od tame tger whose teeth can gnaw, but never bte
agan, and who foams wth poweress rage If no
one has chanced on the sme, t w be a peasure
to have wrtten t down here. I turned my head
away n open dsgust, and the e presson of my face
must have been such as to eave them n no doubt
whatever as to my feengs, for they fe back and
seated themseves, an ugy, oathsome duo, under the
pams on the terrace, whe I ran my fngers aong
the keys and tred to sng and ook unconcerned. I
hed my own aganst ther sdeong gances, whch
even from a dstance they never fted from my
person. To somethng unusua and dstncty hurtfu
to me, these two, whose enmty I had unwttngy
acqured, ooked forward wth evdent mpatence
and confdence. hat coud they mean hat
coud be the hdden menace
nd the ren on the sea
Yester mornng saed towards me
natches of the popuar song rang n my head,
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but I coud not get the words and the meody to-
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an ety, every moment ncreased the emoton create
by the Prncess s attack, and now the nsnuaton of
these base ndvduas ...
th a rustng sound, her pae grey brocade
trang aong the carpet, the Prncess 0va entered
the room, and whspered n awed accents, ngona,
somethng dreadfu must be gong on. I hear you
have made an mpertnent answer to my prm, though
not unknd, sster |ohanna. 0ther accusatons be-
sdes are now afoat concernng you. Good heavens
what woud become of hema and mysef f you
eft the Paace e are deepy attached to you.
ngona, speak Te me why |ohanna dskes
you, and what you have sad to her n my mother s
presence.
I remaned sent, bent on not betrayng the tte
I knew: the presence of |ohn Grey, hs nterventon,
and my own msgvngs. t sght of the Prncess
0va, the two secretares had receded nto the
farthest corner of the terrace, communcatng by a
sma starcase wth the upper gaery, whence every
word pronounced n the room was audbe. I heard
one sght, swft creakng of the wooden steps, and
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so I worded my answer to the Prncess very
cautousy
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knder than before to me. ut as I saw that the
Prncess was determned to communcate her appre-
hensons, and took a seat cose to the pano, I struck
the keys so that our voces were covered by the
ncoherent harmony.
eeve me, ngona, sad she, f you have
any way out of your present dffcutes, make
mmedate use of t. Do not rey on the ueen, or
on my sster, or on me. e aways prove fase and
waverng, and we have never had the puck to defend
our frends, even when our frendshp has n|ured them,
or when they got nto troube to hep us. young
Moorsh servant, who was devoted to me, and woud
have gone to the bottom of the sea for merey the
cod Thank you, bdu, I bestowed on hm, was
caught carryng a etter of mne we, you may
guess to whom and the wretched feow was
mmedatey thrown nto prson, and for months I
heard no more of hm, nor dd I dare to nqure, or
to show the sghtest nterest n hm. e are such
cowards 0ne day I rode across the Park, and
beyond the gates I saw a poor prsoner, dust-covered
and mserabe, conveyed by soders whose bayonets
prcked hs back. I recognzed bdu. 0ne ong
gance of suppcaton he shot at me, and st t
was a gance of devoted affecton but my groom
rode a few steps from me, and I turned my horse s
neck away, and bdu dsappeared from my sght
for ever. hat has become of hm here s he
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I sha never ask those questons. re we not
dsgustng peope, dear ngona
No, no, dear Prncess, answered I. You are
generous and good, snce you recognze errors that
you are not guty of. Most of these defects and
fangs are due to the rank n whch you are paced,
to the conscousness that every one of your actons
s magnfed out of a proporton. I do not put my
fath n prnces, or prncesses, not because they are
roya, but because they are human bengs drven to
egotsm and codness by a goden, stone-bestudded
rod whch they ca a sceptre. 0ften I have heard
your august mother ca her crown a crown of thorns,
but no one has ever seen her forehead beed, for
beneath the crown a thck paddng, caed prde, s
ad, whch prevents crown and head comng nto
cose contact.
Peay, sad Prncess 0va, smng at the
une pected |ustfcaton offered to her accusng
conscence, reay I am very good ndeed, and n
my Memors I sha wrte down how much you
admre and apprecate my herosm. Certany you
cannot e pect me to stand by you n case mother
shoud want to get rd of you
Get rd of me The scourgng syabes
were hardy out of the Prncess s mouth when
mpetuousy, passonatey I sprang to my feet,
whe my brusque abandonment of the keys drew
a crash of sound from the nstrument. ut Your
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Poya ghness s mad to speak n ths way to
me
nd who are you, pease asked the Prncess,
rate, though overwhemed by my vehemence.
I am ngona, I cred, now so ncautous and
mprudent as to aow the nvsbe audence a
compete opportunty of watchng my combat and
probabe defeat. I am ngona de Marto, a
human beng, free, and true, and your superor, as
far as educaton and nstncts go. Your brth, your
tte are naught to me nor your dred-up sent-
mentates and your rotten pretensons
ngona ngona sobbed the Prncess,
who had succumbed to my fury. ngona how
can you speak ths way you whom we have oved
and defended er face was bured n a sma
kerchef, and her tears trcked to her ace seeves.
ut I coud not restran the tempestuous force of
my anger, and st I went on: ee, you cannot even
put up wth the |ust wrath of a tte gr, a found-
ng. hat ese am I but a foundng Maybe a
fsherman s daughter, or the chd of a feon, but the
sprt of my race s not spent n me, as t s n your
parched vens. I am strong, as were your ancestors
of yore who oppressed mne and you are weak, even
as our forefathers were when the chargers of poten-
tates and tyrants waded through ther bood. I am
ngona de Marto, an unknown, and you are
a kng s daughter and you weep because you are
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shocked and afrad, because your dantness cannot
ve wth my voence. a, ha, ha
The Prncess had dropped the kerchef from her
face, and pan and surprse were e pressed vvdy
n her eyes. I recoed. My audacty and over-
powerng eoquence had not ht the mark, and I soon
comprehended that the Prncess ooked upon me n
the ght of a poor madwoman wth whom t was
dangerous to trfe. cod, repeng ar of appre-
henson crossed her nsgnfcant though pretty coun-
tenance, and she put forth her arm as f tryng to
defend hersef. Evdenty she hestated to cross the
room, as I stood n her way to the door, and yet she
wshed to be safe from me. In tmd accents she
sad, Pease et me pass, and took her fu musn
gown between her fngers wth the open ntenton
of preservng her dress from contact wth my
cothng.
oarse and trembng, I cred, 0h do not go
before you understand before I te you every
crcumstance, so that you may e cuse and pty me.
I came here a unwttng of the dffcutes and wes
that ay around. Even now I am at oss to e pan
why hatred and suspcon grn at me behnd every
sme. Do not go
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my fne, rebeous feengs were tramped
beneath the hee of her proud and fathomess du-
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whch remaned unruffed by every argument. I
regretted my own stupdty, and fet grotesque, as
Don u ote may at tmes have fet. The wndm,
nstead of the warror, had ground my courage to
atoms. I coud have cred wth ve aton, and
humby begged the Prncess s pardon for havng
beeved her utter unconscousness to be vunerabe
n some way.
Pease, pease et me pass gasped the Prncess,
more terrfed than I can descrbe by my gente
touch on her shverng arm.
Do not go, do not go I peaded agan,
and paced mysef between the Prncess and the
door.
Then somethng happened the most une pected,
the most revotng, the most e traordnary thng
that the annas of my fe w ever have to record
(at east, I devouty hope t may be so). Dreadfu
yes ssued from the upper gaery, whch caused the
Prncess to sprng back as one stabbed. ep
hep hep These words fed the apartments,
and resounded to the terrace and the gardens beyond,
whe, tumbng down on us avaanche-ke, ds-
heveed, the two prvate secretares e camed
ouder and ouder, ep ep y, Madam
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re fre was the respondng sound I uttered,
as I very beeved they had seen the fames from
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re fre repeated the Prncess, who yet
stood her ground.
0ur Prncess s n per 0ur Prncess ave
the Prncess 0va These sentences rent the ar,
as shout succeeded shout, t doors and wndows
few open t the ueen, the Prnce, the equerres,
an army of ackeys and sentnes made rrupton nto
the chamber, wth vd countenances, and the ueen
rushed nto her daughter s arms.
Thank God thank God e camed the mother.
Thank God my chd s ave ut what has
happened asked er Ma|esty, whe the Prnce
fathfuy echoed appened Emoton aways
sends hm nto phonograph fts.
here s the fre
re sad the Prnce. re he added, n
peremptory tones.
The prvate secretary, the eder of the two,
stepped forward and decared, th er Ma|esty s
permsson, I w e pan.
E pan, sad the Prnce, who by ths smpe
change n the tense of the verb appeared to dspay
an authortatve atttude.
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honour and ove
nd ove ths was taken up ke the soemn
refran of a Greek chorus. Encouraged by the
august nterrupton, the secretary contnued
The darng anguage of the gnorna de Marto
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and her rough handng of er Poya ghness s
sacred person aone |ustfy our nterference.
orror-strcken, the ueen transf ed me wth
one short, eectrc gaze, and the Prnce sad Inter-
ference wth such terrbe ntensty that the sound
of a thousand regments marchng n batte array
mght have been e pected to foow cose on the de-
caraton. ut at ths |uncture the Prncess 0va
sad, wth quet dgnty
I cannot wat unt ths genteman has fnshed
hs vson. hatever converse t may have been
my peasure to hod wth the gnorna de Marto
took pace unwtnessed uness there are spes
around us and she eyed the two secretares t
ther feet were ready to eap out of ther shoes
and I sha never offend one of ths Court so far
as to accuse hm of eavesdroppng. I take t for
granted, now and henceforth, that magnatve
facutes may ead peope far beyond natura mts.
These gentemen must have been dreamng.
Prncess Poya of ngaga cannot even aow the
possbty of rough handng to be admtted n her
presence. Come, mother dear the autumn sunght
n Estaa may fa too heavy on peope s heads
from tme to tme. I saw both your secretares on
the terrace when I stepped n to take my musc-
esson wth ngona, who, by the bye, s an
e ceent teacher, though not haf severe enough.
The end of the sentence the Prncess sad ghty,
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as she wound her arm round her mother s wast and
beckoned to her father. The ueen s open dspea-
sure wth the crestfaen secretares was marked by
two or three dsdanfu wavngs of the hand whch
bore the sgnet rng, embem of roya power, and a
sme, dubous and sght, er Ma|esty drected
towards me then, wth statey demeanour,
soveregns and courters retred. s they crossed
the threshod, the Prncess e camed, h I have
forgotten my kerchef on the pano. No, I w fetch
t mysef, pease. he thrust asde the chamber-
an s empressement, and showed pany that she had
somethng to say whch admtted no bystanders.
he waked up to the rockng-char nto whose
frendy depths I had sunk, e hausted by the strange
scene. he eant over me wth a m ture of fond-
ness and mockery, and whspered
Prncesses may be gnoramuses, but they defy
a your dctonared brans wth one snge touch of
genune royaty. e swarm wth defects, but some-
tmes we dspay one snge vrtue whch outwts a
your earnng and acqured wsdom. e are the
tme-worn work of centures, you the hasty-
varnshed, gaudy pcture that represents the actua
hour. 0ur eght hundred years of hgh tranng,
poteness and generosty hod ther own aganst your
few years brant acqurements. If our ntegence
cannot wak wthout the stts obgngy supped by
yours, one great eap t does take to save modern
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tte grs from humaton and perhaps dsgrace.
Consder and refect, ngona dear. I bear no
mace. I adventured for a warm, cosy pace n your
heart. Do not make me regret the voyage.
The Prncess spoke affectonatey, and the tedous
sameness of her e presson had gven pace to warmth
and gow. I caught both her hands and kssed them
ferventy, whe her ps gded over my beatng
tempes. hen I rose to my feet she was gone.
I was not destned to en|oy even haf-an-hour s
quet that day. n equerry came to nform me that
the ueen requred my presence n the Prnce Con-
sort s brary. I had so traveed through my ups
and downs a sore voyage that I stood before the
ueen as one doomed and guty. er Ma| esty had
donned an ampe gown of vvd red vevet, embrod-
ered wth god and mother-of-pear, and the voent
hue of her garment, her severe countenance, and her
tacturn demeanour gave her the ar of an e ecu-
toner. he resembed the portrat of an ustrous
headsman that I once saw n the urg at Nuremburg,
whose stern, ong hands, oomng from the enormous
seeves of hs scaret mante, had for thrty years
managed wth swft de terty the a e by whch, t
s recorded, eght hundred Chrstans were sent ad
patres. ueens who regn n ther own rght shoud
be good and rghteous, ke Vctora, cever ke
Ezabeth, stupendousy akn to her sub|ects n
temperament, ke Catherne the econd, but shoud
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never ook crue, as dd ueen 0rtrude when, a her
mothery protectve nstncts awakened, she sad to
me, gnorna de Marto, when I asked Doctor
chute to procure a ectrce and companon for my
daughters, the Poya Prncesses of ths and, I
e pected the young gr to be a ady.
er Ma|esty s wde-spreadng nostrs sent snffs of
ndgnaton rght and eft. rom purpe and crmson
oftness, the kngs and queens, her ancestors, ooked
down upon the offended monarch, whe the Prnce
Consort, ensconced behnd a ta bahut, hs eyebrows
aone vsbe, sad oudy, ady
Under ordnary crcumstances, I woud not hurt
one har of a ktten, but, notwthstandng Prncess
0va s recent far conduct and the sense of my own
compete hepessness, I fet my bood rush from
heart to bran wth maddenng rapdty. ut I
kept good contro over my nerves, and wated to see
er Ma|esty s grandoquence dspe tsef whch t
dd. he patted her fve-yards tran, payed wth a
arge brooch on her bosom, and seeng I vouchsafed
no answer, contnued
I dscam a further responsbty as regards
your conduct. em
Ths sad, the ueen bushed sghty, and turned
to the Prnce Consort for hep, and h mmed agan,
then coughed, and resumed, e are not used to
chde young madens. e are not a governess.
Not a governess, roared the angry Prnce, who
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fted hmsef a few nches hgher above the
Penassance bahut.
Mademosee de Marto, Mademosee n-
stead of gnorna beng meant to add soemnty to
the statement Mademosee de Marto, contnued
the ueen, you are n the habt of meetng a
young man day n the tempe of Dana, not far
from the Paace. Truy, I cannot permt n my
house the ow, vugar propensty for makng
appontments
Pendezvous, cred the Prnce Consort, wth a
foursh of satsfacton. e reveed n the dscovery
of a word, and he chucked and whsted, then sang
the three foregn syabes Pendez-vous, rendez-
vous t hs wfe turned fercey round as much as
to say, I am astonshed to fnd you so gay when I
am n such a predcament, and obged to tak of
matters dsgustng to me and far beow my queeny
comprehenson.
Mademosee, sad er Ma|esty, I w not
run you by sendng you away from ths pace an
outcast and a reprobate, though I shoud undoubtedy
be |ustfed n dsmssng one who has commtted
actons heretofore unknown n the annas of our
Court. No one vng wthn the precncts of ths
Paace has ever made an appontment
0ut of ts gates, put n the Prnce, wth an
aacrty whch my sarcastc sme made hm qucky
regret.
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Nether wthn the Paace nor beyond ts gates
has any one who has the honour of camng the
protecton of my roof ever made an appontment.
E cept the Prncess |ohanna, sad I quety, n
measured and cautous tones, ke the cut of a fne
par of scssors through precous ace. The ueen
started, but recovered her sef-possesson at once, and
reped haughty, My daughters are out of the
queston. The Prncesses of ngaga cannot be
dscussed, nor ther names taken n van. Made-
mosee and the harshness of her voce made me
fee that I had struck deep nto her prde, I sha
wrte to Doctor chute, and on hs arrva you
sha be dsmssed. I beeve the Countess de
Mamorda s that the woman s name asked she,
turnng towards the Prnce, n short, the e ac-
tress, who possesses a fne enough voce, s nterested
n your fate. To her I sha wrte aso, or wth a
dsdanfu movement, commsson my secretary to
te her of these events.
Dear gnora Marna, on more than one occason
you have proved good, nay, amost mothery, to the
poor orphan gr, and when I heard you spoken of
n ths way by one who had receved many a sma
servce at your hands, and who empoys your tact
and your acquantance wth many great fames n
Europe n the hope of gettng her wonderfu
daughters off, my patence fe n tatters and I
answered pontedy
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The wfe of s Impera ghness the er-
pparent of reneurech s so busy correspondng
wth the Emperor of Mostow on the Prncess
hema s behaf that she may have tte tme to
read the prvate secretary s scrbbe.
ueen 0rtrude turned pae wth passon, yet,
such was the strength of her admrabe sef-contro
that she pretended she had not heard me, and sad,
You may see the Prncesses, and go on wth your
severa dutes t the arrva of Doctor chute.
No sooner was I safe n my bedroom, and my
head throbbng and dzzy we bured between
my pows, than there was a tap at my door, whch
few open before I had tme to say, Come n and
the Prncess |ohanna, her eyes swoen, her face
gstenng wth tears, her har n dsorder, rushed
towards the bed, and the same coo pows whch
had soothed my cheeks receved qute a cargo of
her sobs and sghs. he began to speak brokeny:
0h, why why dd you betray me Now |ohn
Grey w have to eave ths country. . . . nd I
ove hm I ove hm dstractedy, and he oves
me
I pushed the Prncess s curs out of the heap of
pows.
Does Your Poya ghness reay mean that
|ohn Grey pretends to be n ove wth any other
than
th no other than me, answered the Prncess.
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e tod me so ony ths mornng, and wept over
the yawnng guf between us. 0h ours s such a
sprtuazed ove e made an e change of our
sous. or two whoe hours the beautfuy pure
and ovey sou of |ohn Grey dwet n my unworthy
body, whe my own sprt found peace and happness
n hs. e oves me. nd f he met you n the
mornng n the tempe by the sea, and f I am
no onger angry wth hm about t, t s because
now at ast I reaze that he tred to wn you over to
our cause. Ths he has |ust e paned, and I am
reay ashamed of a the sma snubs and cuts and
useess |eaousy that I have nfcted upon you.
orgve me nd try to save us try to keep
|ohn Grey n Estaa.
In what way can I hep gasped I, though my
voce ded aganst my chatterng teeth, and though
the awfu menta pan struck every part of me wth
a knd of doorous numbness. The heavy throbbng
of my heart aone assured me that I was not dead.
Unconscousy I began to repeat the sad verse,
I ve thought the dead had peace, and t s not so.
To have no peace n the grave, s that not sad
eary I dragged my mnd aong the Prncess s
short, pathetc phrases
|ohn Grey s fate and mne. . . . e are n
your hands. . . . You can spare or k us. . . .
That the Poya maden was not tryng to deceve
was certan. er sncerty eft no doubt nor one
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sma hope. I prayed ferventy that I mght gan
strength not to betray mysef. ve Mara, grata
pena and ever and anon the Prncess sad
Mother orders hm to take the ne t boat.
0va has prevaed upon hm to stay t to-
morrow evenng. ut I w not, I cannot aow
hm to eave. Do you understand me
he shook my arm, and I fet as the dead may
fee when the cross that marks ther restng-pace s
shaken by mpous wnds. nd how must I act f I
woud try to save that man s name, the
sound of whch had been preferabe to musc, now
refused to cross my ps.
|ohn Grey says, added the Prncess rapdy,
that f you coud convnce mother there s nothng
ke ove between hm and you, she woud spare
hm. e s a free man he can stay on n Estaa
f he chooses, whether the ueen ws t or not.
ut he does not care to stay f he cannot see me,
and uness she s sure that there s nothng between
you, the ueen w never aow hm to come to the
Paace agan. he thnks you are |eaous, and fears
that f he kept comng here you woud tak wdy,
and peope woud get to hear of t. e says, Coud
not the gnorna de Marto convnce er Ma|esty
that she does not care at a for me, that she s ready
to marry any other man whom er Ma|esty may
choose among the Court offcas, or among her
sub|ects
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It s not possbe, I protested, that he shoud
have made a suggeston so unworthy, so crue
e s but two steps from ths room. ha I
ca hm and make hm repeat t to you hmsef
ut I coud not stand that. sght, we-known
cough made me know that |ohn Grey was wakng
the corrdor and watng to be caed n.
Very we, Madam, I answered, wth what
forttude and dgnty I coud muster. I sha do
my utmost n your favour and n favour of your
over. To-morrow, before the boat sas, before the
passengers go aboard, the ueen sha earn that I
have never consdered that young man n any other
ght than that of teacher a very mora teacher,
I may add.
The Prncess took both my hands wth the evdent
ntenton of ftng them to her ps, but I hed my
arms down, and ed her to the door by force, and dd
not oose my hod of her t I had seen her |on
|ohn Grey, who, wth hs back turned, awated her
return. nd so, for the frst tme n her fe, was
er Poya ghness the Prncess |ohanna of
ngaga dsmssed.
ow I sha arrange matters God aone knows
how brng about the events I have undertaken to
ay before the eyes of the ueen how fnd a
over, an affanced husband, and that before to-
morrow s over Perhaps Doctor chute woud
have me. |ohn Grey must earn that I hate and
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despse hm. The Prncess must be made to admre
my craft and cunnng. ut, above a, that man
must suffer. 0 Madam, 0 gnora dear, pray for
me. Pray for your poor, proud, wretched ngona.
I am now cowerng n my dstress. Pray for me.
Good-bye.
ngona.
Doctor chute to Doctor Gusner, Drector of
the Lunatc syum n 0cees.
Dear Doctor,
s ever, I must trespass upon your knd-
ness, and ask you to wthhod the news of my
approachng marrage from my sster. I humby
attrbute her present good heath to your e ceent
care. My future wfe, rau von chute that s to
be, has a Leonardo da Vnc face, a wonderfu voce
and e traordnary arge eyes. 0urs s a ove-
match. The gr, naturay, asked me to marry her.
I dd not precptate events. he s some twenty
years or so my |unor. e sha spend our tme
between the Courts of rena and of Estaa n both
paces ngona s amost as popuar as your frend
and servant,
. chute.
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ueen 0rtrude of ngaga to er Poya
ghness the Duchess of dngen.
Dearest Cousn,
Let me pass over the ffteen years of
sence whch has an ke a wde stretch of empt-
ness between us. I must thank you for your
announcement of the doube happness that befas
the ouse of dngen and your famy the
marrage of both your dear daughters. I am too
much of a devoted mother mysef not to understand
your mnged |oy and apprehenson. Georgna s
enterng on a beautfu and perous future, but we
are aware that the educaton she has receved at
your hands s a fttng preparaton for the heavy
burden to be ad upon her young shouders. It
does seem pathetc to see a chd bow her head
under the crushng weght of a great crown. I have
borne the burden wth what courage and patence t
has peased eaven to bestow upon me.
nd nna Pauna s aso becomng the consort of a
regnng monarch ow I hope, how I have prayed
that the fate whch nvoves so many responsbtes
be spared to my dear ones, though they are fuy
capabe of takng up the task. May Georgna and
nna Pauna count as many hours of happness as
the number of my prayers n ther behaf. Ther
prospects are brant. The Emperor may be caed
rather too young and rather too aged for such a
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youthfu brde the ng of Presto but these are
consderatons not to be entered upon by one who,
ke you, dear cousn, has spent most of her fe n a
desoate mountan schoss. You have not been obged
who s, now-a-days to fng yoursef out of a
wndow n order to marry your chdren, but, far from
the actvty and prestge of Court, you were bound
to hep yoursef, to sue for events whch crowd on
others unasked. The progeny of kngs and queens
are surrounded by sutors, whe Georgna and nna
Pauna mght have pned away among your rocks
and hs, but for ther mother s cever management.
Yes, dear cousn, your future Empress and your
future ueen shoud trumpet to the four corners of
the earth the grattude that they owe to you.
th my darngs the case s qute dfferent.
Ther ves are cacuated to make them dske
grandeur, sceptres, homage, and vanty. They have
probed these hoow paythngs, and the pomp that
to unsophstcated daughters of petty prnces appears
a deghtfu novety gvng them the peasant sen-
satons of gay parvenus woud awaken n my
daughters dsgust and ennu. n -natured sur-
mse, whch has found ts way nto some wretched
newspapers, attrbutes the betrotha of nna Pauna
to dsappontment. owever, we a gnore the
unworthy rumour, and t shoud soon be dsspated.
Dear cousn, my thoughts go to you so often I
have aways had such an averson to a waed-n
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e stence such as you have been obged to ead
and, on the other hand, the mserabe dutes com-
patbe wth the rank of a consort make me pty
both nna Pauna and her sster. 0d ceremonas
and sombre etquette w crush them.
I opened Parament ths mornng, and on our
return from the ceremony, 0va, hema and
|ohanna e camed a n a breath, 0, mamma,
what s the use of beng a queen, f not n one s own
rght You aone can shake off the tresomeness
and emptness of a Court you work, you fee you
are accompshng great and good thngs. They
are so happy n Estaa, a three. 0va works on
the tambour, hema pants, and my quet, demure
and earned |ohanna s deep n theoogy. I am
wrtng a treatse on soca ethcs for gentemen-
ushers, as I have been struck a through my trp to
other European Courts by the fact that the rea
genteman-usher s a speces amost e tnct.
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order. Durng my stay n rena, where the Em-
peror, poor ad, showed me a manner of we-
ntended, though cumsy, attentons, I was struck
by the foss atmosphere that pervades t. nd do
nsst on the mmedate banshment of that horrbe
open coffn, whose watng maw I coud see even
from my wndows. Then the Paace n rena s
most dsma, and Georgna must see that gaety
chases away the dark spectres that haunt ts sombre
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abyrnth. There s the presence of that obno ous
person the actress or, rather, Georgna s frst cousn
par aance, as I must ca her now. Those women
are born murderesses. They earn on the stage
to wed the dagger and poson-cup, orga-ke.
Georgna must humour and occasonay fatter her.
It s fortunate that her upbrngng has not made
her too senstve, for 0va coud never have done
ether, and proud hema woud not have ooked
at the creature. |ohanna s an ange, but thank
eaven she has no Lna Marna n her famy
crce.
Dear cousn, my very best congratuatons and
wshes accompany your daughter s brda progress.
eep the skeetons safe n the cosets and the cosets
we ocked up. My dear husband |ons n knd
regards. 0va has wrtten to nna Pauna. he
we remembers the hour they spent together on
that boat on the Phne. The Prnce re|oces n the
prospect of representng me at Georgna s weddng.
Your affectonate cousn,
0rtrude, P.
Lna Marna, Countess of Mamorda, rena, to
the sgnorna de marto.
Dearest, dearest Chd,
Don t do t 0h, don t don t gve your-
sef up to a horrbe fate. Don t become the wfe of
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a man whom you do not ove because another man,
whom you ove and who, maybe, oves you, has
proved treacherous and weak perhaps more weak
than treacherous. Don t, above a thngs, marry
Doctor chute, for I know that he w greedy
take you, perhaps aready has t arranged. If I
coud come to you, on my knees I woud mpore
you to stop and consder.
h, dearest, dearest chd, you do not, you cannot
know how deep, how tremendousy warm s my
nterest n a that concerns your wefare. I have
wept and wrung my hands over your etter. Is t
possbe that ngona, my ovey and good and
sprted ngona, shoud suffer, and I be unabe to
consoe and advse, when I woud gve my fe-bood
for her ngona, have you ever thought of your
unknown mother, I wonder and oved and pted
her ngona, try to magne that I am your
mother, that my arms, mothery n ther tenderness,
try to keep you back from a dark, sopng precpce.
Doctor chute s wfe That you shoud become
the wfe of that man, of a others My God how
can I prevent the awfu unon Pemember, he w
be your husband that man. e w have the
rght to watch over your movements, over your
seep, over your dreams, over the very course of your
heart s desres. Your husband You w be hs
competey. e w touch your har wth hs hands
hs dark, wde, murderng hands and touch your
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ps wth hs ps. ngona, ngona I beseech
you, I mpore I am maddened by the very dea
that such a monstrous possbty shoud have crossed
your mnd. Instead of ptyng and regrettng you,
|ohn Grey w oathe the sght of the woman who
beongs to Doctor chute. You shoud take hs
behavour, sad as t may seem, wth two grans
of aowance one for vanty, the other for fear.
Poyaty s royaty, after a. The Prncess |ohanna s
open sympathy appeas to the young man s amour-
propre, the ueen s menaces have struck another
chord. Perhaps he was afrad of workng havoc
among your prospects as we as hs own by ad-
mttng that he oved you, and you aone. 0h, do
not marry chute My magnaton rees before
the horrbe prospect. My heart s afame wth
ongng to hep you, and terror est I be too ate.
Lna Marna.
The Prncess |ohanna of ngaga to er
Ma|esty the Empress of reneurech.
Dear Georgna,
I am gad you ked our sma present.
hema and 0va are stayng wth mother n
one of our country homes by the sea, where they
w spend a week. The openng of Parament
and the subsequent ceremones aways fatgue
mother.
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Doctor chute, an od frend of our famy and, I
beeve, much apprecated by your husband, asks me
to wrte these nes to you, so I ntrude upon you,
though I am aware you must be oppressed by new
worres and dutes of a knds. re not the two
words synonymous Doctor chute woud ke you
to show some attenton |ust the tte bt an
Empress can easy bestow on a smpe, very smpe
morta to hs new wfe a wee thng, as pant as a
reed, bg-eyed, pert, fu of earnng, artstc tastes,
and much rubbsh of that knd. he s the nece,
frend or proUgte of Lna Marna. I am not en-
chanted by that sort of person, yet Doctor chute
doats on hs Esther (by the bye, she s caed
ngona), and Doctor chute s cever, poshed,
unthwartabe, nvunerabe so hs requests must be
attended to.
My father tes me you ooked beautfu sang
down the rver, and that on your weddng-day your
gorgeous mante and stomacher of pears and
damonds gave the ookers-on ophthama, so brght
were they. ut how heavy they were ony your
poor shouders can te
o Prnce Ethebert gave you away I had qute
forgotten that hs wfe dd she not de n an asyum
somewhere was a Prncess von dngen. I hear
your cousn rederc s budng hs forteth caste,
wth a Vahaa-ke ha. s bran must be peoped
wth gods, and those ugy tte dwarfs who go
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hammerng nght and day. Do send me a desgn of
the s chandeers of sver on hgh stands that
tower above the coffn n your Paace/dear Georgna.
0va says the workmanshp s rare and perfect
Mother has decded that our own ades sha wear
whte and sver on great occasons, whereas hers
wear ruby vevet and sma taras wth a bg 0 n
sapphres rght n the mdde. I sncerey hope that
your mountan hurrcanes and msts have prepared
you for the dreadfu cmate n rena. ow damp
and dampenng t must prove 0va says she
coud not magne ades to be worse. The sunght
here s brght and warm.
I have wrtten to nna Pauna and sent her a
sma tooth-brush case, embrodered by me. I am
tod her husband ooks much oder than he s.
That s a comfort, because the Gotha manach
contans a surprse for some peope, even though t
puts hm nto the fata s tes. . . . Presto s an
adorabe pace the drt and the beauty of t ake
reman n my memory. Mother caught her famous
typhod fever there. . . . Georgna, are you not
qute crusted over wth etquette by ths tme
Do try to modernze your Court, or your ades
w ook ke ueen nne s over-dressed effgy we
saw at estmnster bbey when ast we were n
Engand.
Mother kes your cousn s voce very much. I
never coud have beeved one coud sprng from the
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Doctor chute to hs rother, Gaspard chute,
Country Physcan n 0ues ( esa).
Dear rother,
I am fu of news. I am gong tabe marred
ngona de Marto has asked me to become her
husband teray, she begged me to announce our
betrotha the very evenng of our arrva n Estaa.
You know I was mady n ove wth the gr. There
must be some mystery behnd her radant but pae
face unusuay pae t s. he s the dearest crea-
ture I have ever met. I am very fortunate, athough
why shoud I ca t fortune, when I have foreseen
from the frst that she woud become nvoved n
Court ntrgues and turn to me as her savour
|ohn Grey, the ngo- mercan young foo who
has captvated the Prnce Consort and one of the
Prncesses and, I am afrad, the ueen hersef, aways
speaks of the wonderfu hep he receves from the
Invsbe Power and he s dragged aong the road,
whe I canter ahead nd wth a hs hep |ohn
Grey s payng a perous game.
The ueen s rather cod to ngona, but my
future wfe has nothng to fear from ether queen or
commoner. That poor nsane woman whose fate st
nterests you ded ast month. he has had a decent
bura, and, before dyng, a the medca and mora
hep she coud get, I assure you.
ngona s ookng forward to a knd, brothery
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etter from you. The Prncesses overwhem her wth
presents, and the youngest, Prncess |ohanna, has
even gven her a etter of ntroducton to the new
Empress of reneurech, because we mean, of course,
to ve n rena at the Impera Court. The
Emperor, on prvate occasons, treats me as a member
of hs famy, and I don t suppose hs beautfu, proud
wfe w try to break up our frendshp. I possess
many of the dngen secrets, and know every
deta of the strange adventure whch has made her,
nstead of her sster, the Emperor s spouse. I dsdan
a pretence to wt or earnng, but there s that n
me whch makes peope qua. My estmate of my
acqurements, as regards my power, s accurate to an
nch. I do |ustce to mysef, and force every one to
mtate me.
ngona s pretter and stranger than ever. he
met me on the terrace ths mornng. row of thck
orange trees runs beneath the baustrade, and the
nto catng fowers avshed ther perfume on us as
we waked to and fro. ngona wore a oose dress
of pae pnk musn. er neck was bare.
I want you to know the truth as concernng our
betrotha, she sad genty, as she paced her arm
confdenty n mne. I do not ove you, nor ever
sha, but I w prove a dutfu wfe and true. I
have asked you to marry me because I am oney and
unhappy, and because you are good.
rother mne, as she sad these words, you are
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good, a breeze, refreshng and pure, such as may rse
from the bamy depths of Eysa and sweep over the
boody waves of the cheron rested for one moment
on the famng vanty of my sou. he put no mta-
ton to the sncerty of her beef. You are good 1
nd, ke aust, I heard the steps of Mephstophees
spur me on whe the gente asserton, you are good,
rent my conscence n twan. ecause you are good,
I trust you, and w go wth you. You and the
gnora Lna Marna and the nuns n the Innsbruck
coster have ever been knd to me, and I trust you,
and I pray for you n the chape or at nght n my
own room.
eavens n a vrgn s prayer, n a pace fed wth
the mages of vrgns haowed by the ove of God,
my name was uttered and ths chd trusted me
My conscence cred, You must undeceve her. ut
my heart peaded aganst my conscence whch, ke
poor Desdemona, s now smothered to death by the
ruthess hands of Love. I ove ngona. nd f I
do my best to protect her and make her happy, what
ese does she want I ove her, and wth ths ove a
sentment of bzarre pty s ntertwned. I pty her
for becomng mne I pty her oveness and
nnocence.
Take me away from here as soon as possbe, she
sad, There s n the beauty of ngaga a pas-
sonate, burnng meanng that ks me. ere have
I earnt to hate, I who yearned after the teachngs
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of ove. he ponted to the shore, to yachts that
ftted ke whte-wnged brds over the sea. Every-
thng here s too beautfu, too wrapt n ght and
cadence. Lfe seems nharmonous when compared
wth the unversa rhythm audbe here to our senses.
Take me back to msty and dm ctes, to dark
rena, where are no antque gods, no ght-trppng
goddesses that crowd round one s heart. s she
spoke, she rested one of her knees on a marbe bench
whch stood near the baustrade. Take me back
to Gothc cathedras, to the actve and dscpned
est. ere we ve on the boundares of cvzaton.
Not far from us, bathed n mpacabe ght, sa
e tends her deserts, her beef n a fate deaf and
bnd, whose behests one must watch and foow. I
am a daughter of the est. 0h, take me, take me
o peadng and ovey she ooked n her eoquence
and dstress that I wound my arms round her wast
and stooped to kss her forehead, when, wth a cry,
she started backward. ta shadow ftted over the
garng whteness of the terrace, and as I rased my
head I perceved that from a corner of the upper
bacony the young man |ohn Grey was gazng down
upon us.
Poor ngona had turned deady pae. Certany
she was afrad the ngo- mercan mght have
heard her, yet she dd not cng to me, but seated
hersef on the bench wth a gesture of supreme
wearness. I caressed her cod fngers. e w
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eave mmedatey we are marred, I whspered
then, nkng her arm n mne, I waked away wth
my beoved brde. sh me |oy, brother. I am a
happy man.
ueen 0rtrude has presented ngona wth a
superb damond brooch, the Prncesses wth ther
portrats, and even |ohn Grey must have made some
knd of sma present to her, because I saw on her
wrtng-tabe a sma parce a book or abum, per-
haps, bearng the nscrpton, To Mademosee
ngona de Marto, wth |ohn Grey s compments
and good wshes. The Prnce Consort gves us a par
of superb horses. e are atogether very envabe,
enved and content.
Your affectonate brother,
. chute.
Prncess 0va of ngaga to s Ma|esty
the Emperor of Mtraw.
My dear edor,
It appears I may ca you edor, as we are
cousns and as you w soon marry me. I ke your
etters very much. They are so entertanng, wtty
and cevery cynca. I do not remember when we
met, but I hear you ked me, even though you dd
not enter nto conversaton wth the sy young
prncess I was at that tme, hurred from mornng t
nght from one great functon to another. I fet a
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puppy, and must have ooked ke bread-and-butter.
Mother says I may te you everythng, any amount
of nonsense, and that you are key to prefer my
nonsense to the best speeches made by statesmen.
ut then you are an autocrat, and I suppose your
statesmen s speeches are but the paraphrase of your
w.
hat s an autocrat very bad or a toeraby
good man I have never been abe to make up my
mnd on ths pont. you hep me to do so
Then, every one cas you a be esprt, and papa tod
mother yesterday that n many respects you remnd
hm of what the rench Pegent and George IV
of Engand are reported to have been a ruer
capabe of fng a coster wth carnets, and
then prayng forgveness from the abbess n such
a gracefu way that she must needs forgve. I
am very mpatent to make your acquantance, and
aready I fee qute n ove wth my future sub|ects,
ready to ove as many of them as possbe. The set
of sapphres and the emerads you sent me are the
admraton of everybody.
The number of my future ades-n-watng s
omnous, qute overwhemng. Do you reay beheve
t s necessary to have a hundred madens and dames
n my retnue ut then you cng to tradton, and
I have decded to obey and reverence you. Is the
Prncess Padnsky, my future Mstress of the Pobes,
so terrbe a personaty Do you thnk I sha
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succumb under the harshness of her teachngs
owever, she w speak to me of you and of your
home, whch w be mne, and I am prepared to
wecome her wth a wreath of smes.
The Prncess |ohanna of ngaga to |ohn
Grey.
To-morrow, durng the marrage ceremony, a good
twenty mnutes before ngona becomes Madame
chute, I sha draw out my ace kerchef and ft t
to my tempes. . . .
ueen 0rtrude of ngaga to Doctor
chute.
Etaa.
Dear Doctor,
I sha never get over the shock. nd you
are away, and ngona s not here, and 0va
betrothed to the od Emperor, who aughs hs
rdteer out wth merrment, and the Prncess
adnsky, the Mstress of the Pobes, arrvng ths
evenng as aas the surprse of my msfortune
makes t greater. owever, I must face unrega
angush wth rega dgnty, and no one but a frend
ke you may know the pan that makes a mother s
heart beed beneath the purpe.
Do try to hush up the newspapers, even a tte.
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My ove to ngona. Lna Marna s behavng
admraby.
0rtrude, P.
Prncess hema of ngaga to her ster,
Prncess 0va.
Estaa.
ow t a happened ut who can te, 0va
dear ho can remember anythng but the wd,
desoate moment when, at the end of the marrage
servce, |ust as the brde and brdegroom were wakng
out of the church, the news, whspered at frst, then
audbe, then rsng to a huge camour whch not
even our presence coud restran, crcuated among
the guests and burst upon the word here s
the Prncess |ohanna 0ne of the Prncesses s
mssng They have teephoned to the Paace er
Poya ghness s not there. . . . The Prncess
|ohanna ou pay . . .
ut et me reate the awfu affar from the very
begnnng. h you are happy, 0va, to have
secured a |anc who s now bound to marry you.
nd then, happy to be away. Though I sedom
take arms aganst the behests of Dame Etquette, I
coud have shaken the od ady out of her brocades
on the fatefu day of ngona s weddng. Mother
gave the brde away, but we ost any amount of tme
between the moment when the Poya processon eft
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the Paace and our entrance nto the chape, as we
crossed the park on foot, wakng on an endess
purpe carpet, preceded by gentemen-ushers,
equerres, chamberans. ngona foowed n my
steps, ed by |ohanna, and a crowd had assembed to
see us pass, who coud ony perceve the sght
sawpgon of curs that stand above the top of mamma s
enormous tara. e must have ooked grotesque
and masquerade-ke n the garng sunght, and I
am sure that every one was far from e pectng that
the soemn comedy woud end n tragedy.
Deafenng, sonorous, ruthess, the Poya anthem
peaed on our dstressed ears. I bowed rght and
eft, t I fet cod drops of sweat chase each other
haf-way down to my wast. e both wore dresses
of sver and whte, and sma rose-wreaths on our
heads. hen we reached the chape, the gentemen-
ushers hovered about us to gude us to our paces.
Mother cmbed, wth e treme dffcuty, but dgnfed
countenance, to the top of the haut-pas under a das,
and seated hersef on a scaret arm-char, whe a few
steps beneath father stood, hs head on a eve wth
the ueen s seeve. 0ur Poya ghnesses were
shown to a corner where two pretty gt chars soon
receved the weght of our sm persons and heavy
vestments. I heard behnd me the ady who hed
my tran sgh wth the reef of droppng the oad.
|ohanna, as the youngest, was seated somewhat
behnd me. The brde, pae as the wa candes that
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umned her face, seated hersef besde the brde-
groom. I scarcey stened to the servce, but studed
ngona s face as the food of pathetc organ musc
fed the church. I often wonder, sster dear, how
the gr agreed to become the wfe of that horrbe-
ookng man, whose hands and face both denote
crmnaty, a base creature, serve and vndctve.
More than once, whe the ceremony proceeded
wth ts usua pomp, I heard |ohanna fdget and
sgh, but the heat, the sme of tuberoses and orange-
bossoms had made me dzzy, and I kept my eyes
f ed on the atar, refugent wth ghts.
There are hours, the hours marked by destny,
when we seem deprved of our nstncts as we as of
our reason when we are empted of presentments
and hope and fear when our facutes reman
dormant beneath the sea of mpendng troubes and
aow the tde to rse and wash our treasures away.
as why dd I heed ony the ceremony
nstead of stenng to |ohanna s sghs hy dd I
not turn my head and e change a gance of sympathy
wth my sufferng sster a gance that mght have
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runed prospects hat a wretched mother hat
a dsgrace for the famy a dsgrace, moreover, the
utter hopeessness of whch s emphaszed by the
novety of the case. Prnces and prncesses ought
not to be fesh and bood or they shoud, at east,
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pretend to be dvne, est the do be tramped down
and shattered.
Mother stooped to kss ngona, who knet on the
steps of the throne, and touched the ueen s fngers
wth pad ps. I ooked from them to Doctor
chute s uncouth mouth. The organ peaed forth
the Poya anthem, t t seemed as f the was
woud fa. The newy-marred coupe then proceeded
to the part of the chape where I was seated, and the
genteman-usher, my hoverng gude, waved hs hand,
and whspered, Your Poya ghness may rse |ust
a tte as the brde ksses your Poya ghness s
hand. I suppose the Prncess |ohanna w do the
same thng I must ask my coeague.
My hoverng ndvdua turned to queston
|ohanna s but the atter, wthout heedng hs words,
wth rased voce whch not even the presence of
Poyaty, nor hs Court tranng, nor the soemnty of
the occason, succeeded n restranng, e camed
The Prncess |ohanna s gone here s the
Prncess |ohanna nd the man turned grey wth
concern and humaton, as mght any menagere
feow who has aowed the anma confded to hs
care to gnaw at hs eash and run away.
The Prncess |ohanna s gone 0ne of the
Prncesses s mssng The rumour spread t t
reached the ower ases, t t reached the crowd n
the park. sense of restrant, protoco, dgnty was
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ost. Equerres rushed to and fro, offcers runnng
ther scabbards through ades trans. rom the
Paace the news came that the Prncess was not
there and, aas some of the peope n the park had
seen a young ady n whte, rose-crowned, cross the
sward . . . and the report ended there, as t reached
me.
The ueen aone, coected and statey, seemed not
to heed the ncdent, and wth stod countenance
faced the stuaton. To her Mstress of the Pobes she
sad, Pease ask the guests not to be so nosy before
we eave the chape, and to the gh Chamberan,
orm the processon, sr. You are forgettng your-
sef. The ceremony s ended.
th faterng steps, dazed and bewdered, I took
my rank n the Poya cortge, and wth the Poya
anthem soundng ke a drge we traed out amd
the curosty and e ctement that the ueen s haughty
demeanour had senced but not suppressed. I hoped
aganst hope. the teephones were astr. In the
Paace the hum of the servants e ctement and
curosty coud scarcey be kept from reachng the
ueen s ears. knd of wondrous ucdty strred my
bran. fter the usua and (that day) cumbersome
dutes of our rank, whch bds us never eave a room
n haste and wthout havng addressed a word or sgh
of some sort to every creature present, had been per-
formed, I hastened up-stars. ome e panaton of
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|ohanna s dsappearance I fet sure I shoud fnd, and
there, starng at me wth red eyes, a fve-tmes seaed
enveope ay on my wrtng-tabe. I recognzed our
poor sster s hand. er etter, a wretched epste,
scrbbed and tear-staned, ran
Dear hema, To mother and to 0va I
dare not wrte they may despse and scorn me but
I am certan that you w forgve. Vany have
I endeavoured to wreste wth the ove that bears me
away. hen you read these nes, the Prncess
|ohanna of ngaga w be dead, and Mrs. |ohn
Grey, a ovng and beoved wfe, w be traveng
far, far away from the and where her mother s a
ueen, where she asks her ssters not to |udge her
too harshy. Love, aone, of the hgh-mnded man
whom I sha ever be proud to ca my husband, has
taken me from the artfca and hypocrtca fe
that we have ed. Everythng s accounted for
by ove and the nobe aspratons whch |ohn Grey
has nspred n me. I know that, n a wordy
sense, I am dsgracng you a, and aso the whoe
brotherhood whose vces and vrtues ake are
coaked n ermne but, whatever happens, I sha
ever reman n my heart devoted to the home of my
chdhood, though not to ts pre|udces and tme-worn
customs. Try to understand and forgve. Not
wthout a wrench that has amost drawn the very
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fe-bood have I taken the road that eads to Eterna
Truth, to the ove wthout mt, wthout end.
Through ove aone can ove be conquered through
truth s the great Truth obtaned. Thnk not too
bttery of me, and, above a, do not pty me, who w
ever pray foryou for the enghtenment of your sous.
My mother s good and generous, but there s a contract
between that sweet aspect of prnces and untruth
that the hands of a gant coud not break. I am sorry
for 0va. My good wshes w attend her on her
dffcut voyage, and through her earth-staned task.
arewe, dear ssters, farewe. I have deary
bought, and w vaanty defend my present
happness.. arewe. |ohanna.
Notwthstandng her affected serenty, you can see,
dear 0va, that |ohanna s not as happy as she
pretends, that she s dragged on by a w greater
than her own. he s ost to us aas Mother w
never forgve. The scanda created by her eopement
s surpassngy great. e have renewed compants
about modern prncesses, m ed wth amentatons
over the change n young grs manners. Not for one
second has our mother apsed from her dgnty. To
the ob|ect of her resentment, to that devourng
mnotaur, |ohn Grey, she has not yet auded, nor
aowed one statesman an e presson of respectfu and
useess condoence. he makes no moan. To her
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as to the whoe househod, |ohanna s as f she had
never e sted. trct measures have been taken to
prevent the sae of her photographs n the streets,
through whch our parents now drve day, and
whe Europe s abaze wth ngagan dongs and
the mshaps of our Poya ouse, no outward change
marks the bow that has faen upon us. ather, too,
has barrcaded hs gref. I aways suspected that he
preferred |ohanna to us.
My mad the ony person I trust tes me that
the mad of the Mstress of the Pobes tod the head
buter that |ohanna and that rasca he s now our
brother crossed the water n a ferry-boat to a sma
fsher vage on the opposte shore, so that they were
out of ngaga there they were mmedatey
marred by the prest of the parsh. They had frst
tred to take the tran, but at the staton they earnt
that ngona and Doctor chute were aso eavng
by the same e press. o they changed ther mnds,
|ohanna quttng the church amost mmedatey
after the begnnng of the ceremony. 0wng to the
couds of ncense and to the fact that attenton was
centred on the brde, no one notced her e t. The
papers reate everythng concernng ther where-
abouts. I shoud ove to read them, but dare not.
My ades and equerres watch me strcty. I suppose
both the ueen and the Government woud be averse
to any sgn of kndness or even nterest bestowed on
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the fugtve by her famy. I have been cryng my
eyes out. ... It s sad that they the crue two
are gong to ve n the envrons of rena (does poor
|ohanna magne that Georgna w see and hep
her ), that |ohn Grey does not possess a farthng, and
our sster has nothng but the |ewes she wore at the
weddng. 0 0va, sster how sha we endure the
thought that |ohanna may be sufferng the pangs of
poverty whe we ve n penty My fe seems
darkened, as wth a thck back ve. The Court
ba w take pace on the 1st |anuary, as usua. . .
ow do you get on wth the barbaran grande-
matresse I cannot hep regardng your future
sub|ects as barbarans. Does she not drnk ke a
guardsman, smoke ke a chmney, and swear ke
the dev hmsef Does she eat raw mutton and
devour suet ... 0h I am sad, sad, to the heart.
L ELM .
The Prncess 0va of ngaga to her ster,
the Prncess hema.
I am tortured by the detas, so vvd to my mnd,
of the msfortune that has befaen us. Prevous
news I had receved from father, though wthout
partcuars. I cannot conceve how a prncess, a
roya maden, coud have behaved n ths way, and
have forgotten hersef so far as to eope wth a
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commoner. That man s her husband, her ord and
master, and the ueen s ega, though not offca,
son-n-aw ye, there s the stng to hm, that sght
ne of demarcaton between egaty and offcadom.
My heart and head are ake topsy-turvy wth
confuson and pan, but I must wear an unconcerned
countenance and entertan the Prncess Padnsky, and
take care that she does not send too bad an account
of me to my future spouse, who, t seems, s not ony
connected by a vague cousnshp wth the stawart
barbaran, but s aso her most ntmate frend she
wrtes to hm amost every mornng. he s offen-
svey ta, very far, has a superb compe on, a fat
face, s broad-mouthed, red-pped, has eyes of qud
green whose coour seems to turn back and bue
n the same moment and a terrbe tted nose, the
nose of a warror, nostrs that seem to seek the sme
of gunpowder they are ever datng, appearng to
capture the ar. Yes, she smokes, and carres her
cgarette on the top of one of her rngs, the
rng she wears on her thumb. he breaks me
n ruthessy. My very toes are submtted to
dscpne.
hat she reates of the Court over the destnes of
whch she presdes as t seems I sha be tte more
than a mannequn, a pucnea whose ropes are hed
by the hand of ths sem-cvzed savage what she
reates s smpy appang. Champagne, god, and
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vce seem to be the ruers of the rung famy whose
head s now my fanc. I sha ro n u ury.
More than ten thousand persons are empoyed n the
servce of the Emperor and dwe n the paaces.
They a ead a fe as abomnabe and gay as he
may offer before the fna eap nto the great furnace.
Murder, treason, fasehood boom ke summer fowers
around the monarch and hs famy. s washng-
stand and smeng-bottes sprng nto hs face, bown
up by a bomb the very char on whch he sts, and
hs bureau and the carpet and the bookcase may be
dynamte-ned. Letters that promse death are the
day bets-dou that I sha receve. nd the Prn-
cess adds that the favour of per sheds a gamour over
the humdrum of e stence. hat I am to e pect
east n my new home s quet. The barbaran aso
remarks that moras are pre|udces meant for the
use of the ower casses ony that a man who can
keep coo after s bumpers of Monton Potschd s
the man among them. he woud not ob|ect to an
arrangement that shoud transfer Count Guo to
the Impera Court.
The Emperor must be very pan. e wears a
wg and a rdteer, and uses bg words on sma
occasons, and vce versd. I sme and trembe by turns
when I refect on the change that s about to take
pace n my fe. 0h, how coud |ohanna ut
no more of her. The thought of our msfortune
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depresses me, and my sprts must not desert me.
oe s me Commend me to my mother. Te
her I am workng hard, as any save mght. More-
over, t seems certan that I sha never be abe to
wak out agan. The Impera gardens and the
bacones of the Paace are as fu of ambush and
danger as rmda s own bowers. Good-bye, sster
sweet. as for our wretched sster
0va.
s a tte boy, when he went to Pars wth hs
father, my fanc had two essons from Tama, and
ever snce keeps up the habt of speakng n a
decamatory way of assumng a stage-stak on great
occasons of roarng Pacne, Dante and hakespeare
n the face of the astounded protagonst. I am
afrad the rusty potentate who w ca me hs wfe
must be rather grotesque. esdes, there are
moments when he skps and |umps and twsts hm-
sef ke a squrre. Then he says, Every one says I
bear a strkng keness n movements and manners
to rederc II of Prussa, who was my ancestor.
The ades of the Impera famy are vared n
humour and characterstcs most of them gambe
and sp strong quors from morn to eve.
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The Prncess adnsky, grande-matresse of the
Impera Court, to s Ma|esty the Emperor
edor.
re,
uch a respect have I for Your Ma|esty s
opnon that I dare not form mne regardng the
Prncess, Your Ma|esty s fancte, before the Emperor
hmsef, arbter femnarum, the arbter of womanknd,
has found out whether the Prncess be ndeed as
pretty and nce and smpe as she now appears to my
humbe eyes. . . . Votare, who was the frend of
that peasant kng to whom Your Ma|esty bears so
strong a keness, woud ca the Prncess subte,
and Tama, wth those famous accents of hs, woud
have sad, he s one of Pacne s herones, sweet and
ardent. To me she seems n every way perfecton.
he mght wak on feet somewhat smaer and
have hands somewhat softer, and speak n a voce ess
harsh, and augh more muscay |ust a tthe of
grace added to her fgure mght correct the ambguty
of her form, whch, seen from a dstance, creates a
doubt as to the rea se of the person. The Prncess
s not terary. I may even venture to suggest that
she professes open anmosty aganst terary pursuts.
No doubt Your Ma|esty s nfuence and a few stances
those admrabe stances n the course of whch Your
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Ma|esty reveas Dante, Goethe and ophoces to our
dazzed senses w draw the Prncess out.
I am much moved by Your Ma|esty s promse.
That Your Ma|esty s marrage coud brng no change
to our mutua feengs, Your Ma|esty s precous
attachment to me, and my devoton to the Emperor
both as a over and as my dea of chvarous man-
hood has ever made me fee secure. ut sometmes
I feared that, wth the presence of a young empress,
a sense of rvary mght rse between two women
equay bound to worshp the most enghtened
among the soveregns of Europe. Your Ma|esty
chooses that the future Empress shoud mmedatey
earn, and from the ps of her august husband, the
very pecuar poston that I occupy at the Impera
Court. I have thought on ths, seepng and wakng.
Your Ma|esty s goodness to me s e ceedng great,
and rses much hgher than my poor ambtons. I
care not how I am oved, provded I am oved, and
by that man whose very voce thrs me.
The Prncess s not at a romanesque keeps a
dary atogether s very crvassere and by keep-
ng good watch over her nkstand and ts products
we sha ever be abe to know the ns and outs of her
mnd. he s grown rather meanchoy snce her
sster s adventure. In genera, her gaety s of
a puere, noffensve knd the gaety of a puppy
over a puppy s feats. I do not beeve she w prove
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troubesome but who can become so n our auto-
cracy he depresses me, but then perhaps I am
|eaous. The other Prncess s younger than her
sster by s years, rather du, but not devod
of humour. Ther Court, mantaned on a modest
footng, w make ours appear enormousy magnf-
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Georgna, Empress of reneurech, to the
Duchess von dngen, her Mother.
rena.
Dear Mother,
Thank you so much. Ltte Matt s de-
ghted wth the presents. You see, I ca hm
tte Matt st, though he s now a grown-up
boy. s tenth brthday has |ust been ceebrated
throughout the Empre. It seems such a pty that you
shoud not have seen your own grandson for at east
eght years. you never come to rena agan
I fear our fe here depressed you. I know t s
ugubrous, and I have mysef become dsma and
so strange. I fee that every human ook that rests
upon my face reads nto my goomy, goomy sou, a
sou as crowded wth spectres as any vaut mght be.
0h the awe, the horrbe and overpowerng sensa-
ton of feeng that one s countenance s the prey of
hauntng eyes herever I go, eager gances foow
me n thousands and now, to avod the dreadfu
stran, I carry a huge back fan, the feathers of
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whch hde me from chn to eyes. The Emperor s
very angry at ths new habt of mne. e s
gracous enough to say that I deprve hs sub|ects
of the sght of my oveness. m I ovey st I
wonder. I wsh I dd not hate mysef, and hate
so many thngs my tte, my rank, my |ewes, and
ths Paace and rena.
Matt s wd over hs rockng-horse. The chd s
yng at my feet on the carpet. I have |ust gven
hm a scodng he s too proud to compan, but
the sghtest rebuke cuts deep nto hs heart.
Peay, mother, my boy s not ke other boys. I
can fnd no means of curbng hs voent and crue
nstncts. Ths mornng he ked hs favourte cat
wth hs own hands he stranged the poor brute, and
then asked me to note how wonderfuy fne were the
dead anma s gazed pups. Great refnement, actv-
ty, ceverness and cruety unte n renderng Matt s
character a doorous probem. The Emperor nssts
that hs son sha earn a the daects spoken
throughout the Empre, and a few foregn tongues
besdes but he s not appaed ke mysef by hs
curous propenstes. . . . re we degenerate, mother
ometmes I thnk so, and then a wave of remorse
sweeps over me. To me, and to my race, perhaps,
sha a great ream, an mmense popuaton, and the
hstory of a whoe naton be ndebted for the torment
of beng rued by a Nero or a Cagua. . . .
I was obged to nterrupt my etter. The
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Emperor caed upon me. e often favours and
rrtates me wth one of these abrupt vsts. e
wshes me to appear at the Court a ne t week.
nd I am resoved to take to my yacht and fy off
somewhere between sa and frca. I coud not
toerate the mad strans of watzes echong through
the funerea has of the Paace, t they fa ke
dead brds nto the depth of that ever-empty coffn.
Ever empty, ever gapng Into the dark vod do I
day throw my dreams, my good ntentons. The
peasure of my fe, the ony one ha I te t
you, mother. To wak barefoot through my coossa
chambers and sweep the carpets wth my trang
har, t the sound, soft and soothng, us my
thoughts to rest. nd thus does the enved and
beautfu Empress of reneurech spend her
brghtest hours, the hours of youth, the hours dear
to ove I am tte better than the actresses upon
the stage, and when I have to pay my part n
scenes of spendour, methnks even to them I must
appear despcabe. or they at east must thr
and trembe sncerey sometmes whereas, I am a
stone, a cod reed whose fowery tops have been for
ever washed away.
Mother how ow, how serve are those who wat
upon the great They pu whte goves over ther
feengs and ther character. Every ange s smoothed
out. Methnks I tread ther sncerty down wth
every ook. The Emperor gnores subtetes, and s
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content when he hears smooth thngs uttered n
smooth anguage. esdes, hs amost day contact
wth offcers and regments may gve hm the uson
that manness and vaour have not competey ded
out from the ranks of humanty. . . .
I ead the fe of an anchorte, rse before dawn,
eat tte, nduge n no peasure e cept rdng, and
wear dresses of pan, soft wooen matera. The
prncesses of our famy ca upon me twce a week.
They are obged to do so. They stand n awe of
me, as I put on my very strangest moods wth them,
and never tak to them but n hurred whspered
words, a habt whch they strve to mtate and
thus I am spared the tra of puttng up wth
nonsense sowy uttered n harsh tones. nce I do
not care for ther opnons and feengs, they are not
nterested n mne, or rather, they suspect I have
none. hy do I possess so strongy the power to
despse Maybe these women are as wretched, as
rebeous and vountary tacturn as mysef. m I
reay what every one fears I may become m I
an Impera sster of the goomy and marveous
Poya amet
The Emperor asks me not to rde out n the com-
pany of Lna, the morganatc wfe of hs frst cousn,
|oachm. Lna s the ony creature to whom I cng,
and such a spendd horsewoman too nna Pauna
wrtes that she s happy. Does she try to deceve
us or hersef 0r does she wsh to convnce me that
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the ev I dd her s obterated I hear 0va s
awfuy mserabe the Death s-head on the tabe
n ancent e andra s but a poor embem of her
destny. Day pots, conspraces, and attempts to
assassnate the Emperor, hs wfe and chdren, are
reated to us. The gr eft a peacefu country, a
and of gods and gorous tempes, |ust to become
the wfe of a septuagenaran, the vctm of a
Prncess Padnsky, and the prey of never-ceasng
terror he trembes for her tte boys, whom she
oves wth ardent devoton. er sster |ohanna,
who eoped wth a professor a few years ago, ves
on the outskrts of ths town. he gves drawng-
essons. They are ab|ecty poor. I wsh to hep
them. ut how I am surrounded on every sde
by the pre|udces and etquette attendng on my
rank. |ust read the account of a daogue between
my husband and mysef, whch took pace no onger
ago than yesterday
The Emperor. Georgna, dd you have a good canter
ths mornng
I. Yes.
The Emperor. ut you rode rather too far out of
the cty.
/. ow do you know that
The Emveror. rom the poce whose duty t s to
foow you.
I. nd to spy upon my actons
The Emperor. 0f course. Georgna, I am sorry
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to say that you dstrbute your bows wth
apparent ndfference to the mport of the Impera
favour.
I. The ast week you tod me I bowed too cody
and too rarey.
The Emperor. Georgna, your horse entered a sma
ane yesterday.
|. houd you have preferred that my horse
entered the sea
The Emperor. In that ane you met a woman,
pae and pany dressed. he wore a back straw
bonnet and a thn brown shaw, though we are now n
wnter. he hed a shabby-ookng tte gr by the
hand. s you passed, the two made way for you,
and your hgh-steppng horse spattered a bg ump of
mud n the tte gr s face. The chd cred out.
You took the red rose that you aways wear, out of
your buttonhoe, and et t drop nto the chd s
hands. Then the mother rased her eyes, but
mmedatey, wth a sght e camaton, bowed her
face agan. he had recognzed you, and haf under
her breath she even sad, Georgna The three
equerres, who had remaned somewhat behnd, on
hearng the Empress thus mpudenty caed by her
Chrstan name, hurred forward to rebuke the
woman
/. hose tears trcked down her sunken
cheeks
The Emperor. ut, wth a haughty foursh of
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your whp, you waved the astounded equerres away
and, stoopng over your sadde, you sad
I. I sad, hat can I do for you here do
you ve 1 Come to the Paace. Gve me your
address wrte to me. ut the unhappy creature
tossed her head, wth a proud, unspeakaby nobe
movement, and, draggng her chd away, wthout
one Thank you, rushed nto the darkness of the
ane.
The Emperor. nd that woman was the spectre of
one who has ong been dead the wfe of a petty
teacher.
I. That woman s the Prncess |ohanna of n-
gaga, daughter of the ueen of that country, sster
of the Empress 0va, and our second cousn, and
my former paymate.
The Emperor. I te you that the Prncess |ohanna
of ngaga s dead.
I. nd who are you to bestow death on those
whom the Creator keeps ave
The Emperor. I do dea out death on crmnas
wth a snge word. ome of them I condemn to a
vng death, and they e st no more than f they
had ceased to breathe.
I. You have often tod me that roya bood s a
preservatve, that roya bood wpes out crme, that
one snge drop of the precous quor means more
than the foods spt by thousands on batte-feds
and scaffods. Is t not so
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The Emperor. Georgna, don t argue wth me I
hate argung.
/. ut can you deny that |ohanna of ngaga s
st my equa, though marred to a teacher Come,
Matthew, you are knd-hearted, and more so than
any one ese beongng to our set. ow me to
hep |ohanna.
The Emperor. e, of course we sha have to
comfort the unfortunate gr n some way, I
suppose.
I. ay, n every way, Matthew dear.
The Emperor. In every way, then but t must be
done secrety, quety, so that no rumour gets afoat
of your nterest n one whom her own mother has
openy dscamed.
I. mother s dscamer of her own fesh and
bood means dsgrace to the mother, and not con-
demnaton of her chd s conduct. I have dropped
ueen 0rtrude atogether snce her harshness to
|ohanna.
The Emperor. That s wrong, Georgna. ueen
0rtrude s a vrtuous and pous woman, an e ceent
queen. ut no more of ths. end a cheque to the
wfe of |ohn Grey an anonymous cheque.
/. e, Matthew Ungenerous I woud not
dsgrace mysef by such an acton.
The Emperor. |ohanna w surey guess the orgn
of the cheque.
/. Very we, then, Yet, Matthew, you woud be
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an ange f you permtted me to send a sma note
wth the money.
The Emperor. I cannot refuse your requests,
Georgna. rte to your former cousn and frend.
ut mnd you word the note cautousy.
o I wrote: Dear |ohanna, w you accept ths
trfe from one who has never ceased to be your
frend Georgna.
The ne t mornng I receved an answer, eabor-
atey wrtten, and to the effect that Mr. and Mrs.
|ohn Grey, n whom er Ma|esty had been gracous
enough to be nterested, needed nether money nor
any attenton whatever from one who had aowed so
many years to pass wthout makng nqures as to
the fate of her second cousn, |ohanna Grey. Thus
s my sympathy for the runaways re|ected Lnn
Marna has promsed to do her utmost for them.
he en|oys some knd of freedom, though she dwes
wth evdent peasure on her dutes as a morganatc
consort, on the constrant mposed by her poston.
he s becomng very Poya I shoud say, very
Impera ndeed. |oachm s muzzed, wrapped up
n her taents and her fast-fadng beauty.
ngona chute s st the handsome gr I
admred when she frst came to Court. er husband
makes desperate efforts to attan a pace n the
Court crce, and I beeve he w de of satsfacton
the day hs wfe s nvted to a Court ba. ut,
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aas hs wsh s unattanabe, naccessbe. The
aws of our etquette are strct and ruthess. I may
see ngona chute as much as I ke n prvate,
but she cannot even approach the hem of my tran
n pubc, nor shake hands wth one of my ades. In
a word, she s unborn but, whe the unborn babe may
ook forward to ght and fe, those who are not born
to occupy a good pace n our presence w never
be entted to t, however ong they ve and strve.
I am so happy to receve such dear ong etters
from nna Pauna and yoursef. nd I am bound
to wrte often now, because tte Matt has permsson
to stay n my room ony durng those moments when
I am occuped wth pen and nk. I do not know
the reason of ths arrangement, but wrtng thus
bestows a doube advantage on me.
Your obedent and devoted daughter,
Georgna.
The Emperor s away wth a bg huntng-party,
and w not be back before the end of the week.
rauen Toptz to er Poya ghness
the Duchess von dngen.
Madam,
or more than one reason I have been
obged to put off mmedate obedence to Your Poya
ghness s commands. hen the Emperor s here,
er Ma|esty never aows me to eave the sma
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boudor ad|onng her sttng-room. The Empress
avods a Ute-a-tte wth her enamoured and ong-
sufferng husband. as Madam, n the Impera
manage thngs go from bad to worse. Ths s no
hearsay, no mere handmaden s tae. hat my eyes
see, what my ears hear, my hand needs must wrte
to the best among mothers, to Your Poya ghness,
my benefactress, my knd and gracous Lady.
The Empress uses the Emperor very bady. I
coud not so treat my cat, though the anma pays
wth my wooen shaw t she tears t to peces.
Your Poya ghness commands me to be perfecty
sncere, and to speak as freey of the matters that
concern your august daughter as I woud speak of
my own, and whch, under any other crcumstances,
I shoud never dare to breathe. rauen L does
not te the truth. Your Poya ghness must not
beeve a tthe even of her reports. nd who coud
know better, and more, as regards the Impera
coupe than one who, ke my humbe and respectfu
sef, does not budge from the bessed tte boudor
There I am screened by a huge paravent. The
Emperor does not suspect that he s not aone wth
hs wfe, and my presence means securty to the
Empress. he beeves that some nstnct w keep
her husband from kssng her, wth me a few steps
from them. ut what prevents ths natura acton
on hs part s your daughter s atttude, Madam and
nobe Lady. he s so cod to the Emperor that not
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even a cowboy woud accept the ke treatment at
the hands of hs wfe. The Empress never degns to
accompany the Emperor to the staton when he
eaves, nor to meet hm on hs return. They never
address each other e cept on offca occasons, and
about matters concernng the Court. er Ma|esty
s more than ever taken up by the dressng of her
wonderfu har, and n ths rauen L encourages
her. The Empress s haughty and unforgvng.
he once ooked upon the Emperor wth ove and
kndness, but from the day she met an actress who
wore a braceet of e acty the same desgn as er
Ma|esty s, wthout one word of reproach to her
husband, she sent a sma parce to hs apartments,
a parce contanng her own braceet, and every
te of affecton seemed broken between them. The
Emperor repents sncerey, and s more than ever
n ove wth the Empress, but as he sees that she
dspays a knd of abhorrence whenever he endeavours
to approach her, he s begnnng to abandon the
enterprse. o the Empress s eft to hersef. 0ny
Lna Marna, rauen L and mysef are admtted
to her prvate apartments.
Madam, for months have I hestated before dong
what Your Poya ghness deems my duty, and now
wth trembng do I commend mysef to Your Poya
ghness s dscreton and to the mercy of God. I
have coped a page or two out of er Ma|esty s dary
the prncpa pages, I must say. I ferventy pray
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that I may thus become the nstrument of er
Ma|esty s happness. I here encose the copy, fath-
fu and e act, of one of the ast pages er Ma|esty
has wrtten. The Empress generay gets up ong
before dawn, and wrtes whe every one n the Paace
s st aseep.
Toptz.
E tract from the Dary of Georgna, Empress
of reneurech.
ha I try to make hm beeve I am mad I
want to torment hm t he oves me wth a ove far
greater than that he once gave me, and whch even
now s mne. . . . e s aways n fear est I shoud
resembe mother and grandmamma, and a the ugu-
brous ne of ancestors to whom I am ndebted for
my bzarre tastes. 0h my husband I ove thee,
but wth a ove so strong that t assumes the ways
of hate. Thou hast betrayed me and tramped on
my dreams and I am the Empress, a woman who
shoud not harbour the passons and unrest of a
woman. No one must know, no one suspect.
mong the men who wth bowed heads approach
me there s one, the handsomest and nobest, who
scarcey dares to ft hs eyes to my face, whose
breath quckens when I ook nto hs eyes, whose
stawart fgure sways f I address a word to hm.
e oves me aye, even as I ove Matthew, and ke
us he burns n the ferce furnace of, ove.
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Is t wrong for me to dwe upon ths, and to fnd
a certan soace n the feeng that my pan and the
sufferngs of that young man are cosey akn e
cannot address me. e never remans more than a
few seconds n my presence, and yet when he s not
among the crowd of courters and equerres, I mss
hm, because I fee certan that he ptes me. nd
he s |eaous, poor boy |eaous of Matthew, of hs
own Emperor h f he were aware of the terrbe
truth . . .
I thnk Matthew s suspcons are aroused. e
watches me. ... o I sme upon the ardent youth.
s name hs Chrstan name ony w I wrte
down here egfred. e s caed after one of the
heroes whom my cousn ng rederc worshps. I
must make Matthew amost certan that I ove
egfred. I am naught but a chd and a mad-
woman.
My har my wondrous, amber-cooured har
my har, russet as the coour of autumn eaves how
t es around me n ts abundant gory I have now
pued the great perfumed waves over my face t I
see nothng but the gmmer of my amp.
rena s aseep, and the whoe Paace, and the
treasures n the Impera vauts, perhaps even the
guards n ther watch over that ever-hungry coffn.
Does Matthew dream of me nd egfred
Ltte Matt s a crue boy, and cever. I wsh he
were not my chd, and yet I woud not have hm be
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the chd of another, and I coud not ve wthout the
pressure of hs angry fngers around my wrsts, when
he says, Mother, you must
The Duchess von dngen to rauen
Toptz.
choss Taarbruck.
Dear rauen,
I am very gratefu for a the good you are
tryng to do. My daughter wrtes that she s
deghted wth your servces. I sha commend you
to my son-n-aw. Do go on sendng some of those
thrng pages. You are reay hepng us n a mar-
veous way. My daughter s makng a sad mstake
when she says that I am Never mnd. he s
my daughter, and an Empress, and fautess, and
beautfu.
The Emperor of reneurech to hs Mother-n-
aw, the Duchess von dngen.
Dear Mother,
I am very much obged to you for the
deep nterest you take n my wfe and mysef. ut
the Empress s sentments and actons cannot be ds-
cussed even between her mother and her husband,
and I shoud fee gratefu f you woud henceforth
avod any ausons to the sub|ect.
Your affectonate son,
Matthew, I.
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Georgna, Empress of reneurech, to er
Ma|esty the ueen of Presto.
Impera Paace,
rena.
Dear nna Pauna,
I have aowed the days to drag themseves
through my monotonous fe wthout fndng a
moment whch I coud ca my own. Mother s be-
comng very cod and very unknd to me. he pres
nto my actons, threatens and scods me n every one
of her etters. I am very pecuar, but whe the
peope around me are obged not to notce my
pecuartes, my own mother seems to deght n
emphaszng them. To her the fact that I never
wear a par of shoes and stockngs more than a few
hours, and that I order a hundred pars of shoes every
month s unwarrantabe foy. Does she not remem-
ber our preposterous weath, and the natura
demorazng effect of god and power upon
humanty he shoud be thankfu that I have not
yet turned nto a Poman or yzantne ugusta. I
despse |ewery and brocades. Corrupton s not n
my ne. . . .
nna Pauna, don t you beeve that we wak
aong preceded by two shadows the shadow of what
we mght have been, were a our best quates and
aspratons unted and transformed nto a human
beng, and the shadow created by our actua defects
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oth these mpapabe companons become our
counseors by turns. . . . ut perhaps you aso
w |udge me harshy f I go on wrtng these
absurdtes . . .
|ohanna of ngaga that was, has asked me and
Lna Marna to take tea wth her n her cottage.
Can I refuse I mght dsobey orders, and go
secrety.
ngona chute, the wfe of the Emperor s
dentst, caed on me ths mornng. efore noon I
can receve persons who do not beong to the nobty
the ante-merdans, as I ca them. You shoud
see my ades retreat from my apartments when such
as ngona enter the Impera precncts. I cannot
hep thnkng that ngona s very unhappy, and
does not ove her husband n the east. he enter-
tans the same feengs towards hm as my ades
towards her. e eft her wth me for more than an
hour. he taks to me freey she even touches my
arm when she s partcuary e cted, and ths often
happens. hat f my ades saw her handng ther
Empress wth such asser-aer
I asked ngona to accompany me on my vst
to the cottage of the Prncess |ohanna of ngaga.
Can you beeve that at frst she refused faty, and
wth a vehemence so strong that even n her, whose
conversaton s often ardent, even passonate, the
voent tones and gestures were unusua. t ast
I succeeded n prevang upon her to accompany
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me as far as the ane. I coud not rde out of the
town and nto the suburbs aone, and how to get rd
of my equerres three n number st remans a
probem. ngona promses she w see to that.
he s very skfu.
rauen Toptz s gettng more youthfuy n-
cned every day she has dscarded her pan dresses
for dvaportcs toettes. he ooks rather grotesque,
but s so attentve, and good to the core besdes.
rauen L pretends there s a young offcer
urkng behnd Toptz s e traordnary curs. nd
oh nna Pauna, she pants her face Poor, poor
dear Toptz I am so sorry. I am so fond of her
that I am ashamed to augh.
I am peased to hear of your deghtfu vegature.
. . . 0h, to bask n the sunght by the sea, to
foow the hummng of bees from rose to rose . . .
Matthew has promsed me a superb present a
yacht. nd then I w sa to you, dear nna
Pauna. . . .
ngona chute started and turned pae when
I spoke of |ohanna s wretched shaw and pnched
face, and she asked me, Dd you see that man,
|ohn Grey, the cause of so many msfortunes
hat endess gref he has sown
hy do you speak so, ngona I asked.
Do you deny the power of ove Is |ohn Grey
guty because the Prncess oved hm nd who
can te whether ther poverty s not rcher by far,
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than the treasures that I possess, and more envabe,
and dearer to them ho can te whether |ohanna
does not consder her ot brghter than ether yours
or mne
Yes, ndeed, reped chute s wfe |ohanna
s happer than Your Ma|esty, and far happer than
me. or that reason I woud snatch from her the
ragged shaw, and demand of her, ho are you that
you shoud taste the bss that has been dened to so
many . . . and to me Pank and power were
yours you ved n a roya paace, amdst unrvaed
gardens others, penness orphans, had nothng but
ove and that ove was taken from them and
avshed upon you.
ut, ngona, I remonstrated, you are un|ust.
ow coud the ove of |ohanna and |ohn Grey have
n|ured any one uness
Your Ma|esty s rght, answered ngona,
tryng to recover hersef. I speak too bttery.
ut there are moments when the tongue s un-
controabe.
re you not happy, rau chute
he shvered, and sad quety, I am a happy
wfe. My husband oves me. ut the strangeness
of my fate preys on my mnd. I do not know whose
daughter I am, and before I marred she bushed
and sghed before I marred, I met the man who
mght have been a n a to me. Crcumstances
came between us. Then Dr. chute came. Your
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Ma|esty knows the rest of the tae a commonpace
story, after a but can we hep feeng at tmes
that our own heart s the ony pace n the word
where deady confct s waged, that we are the centre
of the unverse, the utmate cause and effect
ngona smed sady, and I answered, I aso
fee that my heart s the begnnng and end of
Creaton, the goa to whose spendd heghts Pan
and Peasure pont wth outstretched arm. ut
I thought that I had that deuson ony because
I was born a prncess and am now an empress who
sts on a powerfu throne.
as Madam, sad ngona, we are a of us
born prnces and prncesses, empresses and emperors
to ourseves. I sha certany accompany Your
Ma|esty n the ca on the e -Prncess of ngaga.
Does Your Ma|esty know that her name s never
mentoned n Estaa, nor throughout the whoe
kngdom s there any one who cares to remember
the Prncess |ohanna Photographers were busy
for weeks over the destructon of her portrats, and
her pctures n her mother s paace are covered wth
crape. he s the dsgrace of her famy, the Marna
aer of the dynasty. nd her ssters They
dare not receve etters from her, but the Prncess
hema wrtes. The Empress, her other sster, s
a prsoner, a wretched save amost dstraught wth
fears. nd her father, the Prnce Consort Pooh
he sts gazng nto hs wfe s huge sppers.
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ngona speaks bttery of the ast month she
spent n Estaa. I magne somethng very ds-
agreeabe must have happened to her there. . . .
Ths s a gosspng etter. You cannot compan of
my sence, now.
Your
Georgna.
rauen Toptz to er Poya ghness the
Duchess von dngen.
Madam,
Your Poya ghness s gracousness fs
my heart wth unutterabe |oy. o the Empress
has degned to menton my humbe name n er
Ma|esty s etters to er ugust Mother Ths s
e ceedng knd, and I fee mysef unworthy of such
favour. rauen L s, after a, a good gr, and
the peasant dscovery she has made about one of
her cousns makes her the centre of a good many
attentons here, especay from my nephew erbert,
the Emperor s ammer-Dener. It seems that rau-
en L has a dstant reatve, a cousn, who s a
ord, a rea ve ord Irsh, not Engsh, and hand-
some and weathy, and nothng shocked by L s
poston at the Paace. e cas on her frequenty
and has taken qute a fancy to me, so that I have
more reasons than one for obeyng Your Poya
ghness s n|uncton and eavng the Empress n
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the Emperor s company. ut ths has brought no
change whatever n ther mutua sentments, and
the Emperor s away n one of hs shootng-odges,
where he spends most of hs tme. Lna Marna
stays an hour wth er Ma|esty twce a week. he
s dreadfuy atered has ooked ke a spectre of
her former sef ever snce she dscovered that Prnce
|oachm s n ove wth the queer tte wfe of the
Court dentst, Doctor chute. ngona chute
does not encourage the Prnce, who showers fowers
and attentons of a knds upon her, but, most
snguary, Lna Marna has not ceased to show rau
chute a great dea of affecton.
Lna Marna ves n great spendour n her
paace. I have seen her apartments there. They
suggest faryand, and are fed wth wonderfu
statues and many fountans. Lackeys gde sent
as shadows aong the marbe pavement of the wde
has. The scent of e otc fowers emanatng from
her conservatores s so strong that I had to keep
my kerchef qute cose to my nose even whe I
devered er Ma|esty s message. ut Lna Marna
s even prouder and more dstant than the Empress.
he bowed me n and out wth qute a rega ar.
I shoud not be surprsed to hear that that woman
had commtted a crme or two n her fe. he s
as successfu and as mpudent as any adventuress
wth whom I have met. I beg Your Poya gh-
ness s pardon I shoud not speak n such an
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off-hand manner even of the morganatc spouse of
a Prnce.
The Empress tes most of her ntmate thoughts
and pans to Lna Marna, and er Ma|esty even
takes tea n a prvate manner wth the e -prma
donna. The arrangements for these vsts of the
Empress to the Paace of Prnce |oachm are a
made by me and by rauen L. er Ma|esty
eaves the Impera Paace n a sma andauette
ncognta. genteman, young n years and appear-
ance, but of whose rank and name I am st gnorant,
often asks to meet the Empress. . . .
The Duchess von dngen to her Daughter,
the Empress of reneurech.
Georgna darng,
rst of a, I must menton the matter
that s uppermost n my mnd. Do be knder than
ever to rauen Toptz. he has of ate rendered
me more than one good servce n favour of my
0rphan Gud, and sent me such precous nforma-
ton concernng Charty Insttutons n reneurech.
I do not qute approve of your vst to |ohanna
Grey. hat a pan, commonpace, monosyabc
name Pemember, Georgna, one has to become
hard-hearted. Monarchs are pad to dspay respect-
abty. hundred to one that nna Pauna woud
never dream of e tendng even the smaest of her
fngers to one who has thrown hersef nto a dtch.
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ut then you are you, and you have a very
ndugent husband. 0f course he need not suspect
your ntentons, and who woud betray you No
one reay cares enough for your wefare to do that
e cept your mother, and I do not nterfere n the
east.
0va s sat upon by that bg, abomnabe woman,
the Prncess Padnsky, and hema wshes to
reman unwed to the end of her fe. That a
daughter of ueen 0rtrude, and the prettest of the
three, shoud wsh to become an od mad s a shock
to us a. . . . Pease notce that I do not try to
hnder you from cang on |ohanna, but I ask you
to refect. Grevous resuts mght ensue whch
woud spo your peace and good repute. Good-
nght, daughter dear, far daughter.
Your ovng Mother.
Georgna, Empress of reneurech, to her
Mother, the Duchess von dngen.
Empresses and ueens have nether peace nor
good repute. They shoud be above the possbty
of acqurng any persona reputaton whatever.
owever, as I don t beeve t es n Matthew s
power to be angry wth me, I have tod hm that I
am takng tea wth |ohanna Grey and ther chdren
to-morrow, and he has acquesced, and thus made
use of one of hs few chances to wn me back. The
necessty for mantanng secrecy, n spte of hs
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permsson, st remans, so I sha rde to the
cottage wth ngona, and Lna Marna w |on
us, and we sha pay a sma comedy. 0ne of us
must contrve to spran an anke or somethng of
the knd, so that we get nto the cottage par hasard.
Isn t t absoutey and marveousy absurd I sten
wthout beneft to the dctates of our rank I sha
never be reasoned out of my contempt. To thnk
that the Impera famy set up such a hue-and-cry
aganst Lna Marna hat are stage trcks to our
trcks, s vous pat arah ernhardt and Eeonora
Duse assume a part but for two or three hours,
whereas we have to be unrea and deceptve from
mornng to evenng. nd when, on the way to the
footghts, one stumbes aganst one s conscence,
how qucky one must rse and pretend not to have
been hurt by the fa
rauen Toptz craves my approbaton of her
nfatuaton. he s n ove wth an Irshman, a ord,
and second cousn to my second mad L. er
deght s boundess. nd I must put t on record
that the sad ndvdua ays down hs tte, fortune
and heart, at her coossa feet. Do you remember,
mother, that ng rederc once asked, ho s
that awfu woman whose foot s ke the coffn of a
three-year-od chd nd her nose so sma, so
ost to sght that every one wonders how the tny bt
of fesh and musce can survve.
To-morrow I sha wrte partcuars about |ohanna
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and her home, and te you how the whoe comedy
has gone off. Lna Marna offers to spran her anke
by fang from her horse. ngona seems more
ftted to the part.
ngona chute to Lna Marna.
Dear rend,
My husband s very nervous about that
mare the Empress gave me, and atogether about my
vst to the Greys. Coud he not accompany us on
our e pedton
ngona chute.
Lna Marna to ngona chute.
0f course, dear one. er Ma|esty does not ob|ect
to hs presence, as why shoud she To-morrow
at three. Good-bye.
Lna Marna.
rauen Toptz to er Poya ghness the
Duchess von dngen.
Madam,
May Your Poya ghness be gracousy
dsposed towards the communcaton that I am bod
enough to make Lord e Dashby has asked
me to become hs wfe. Ths s to me an event of
unmtgated happness ony the thought that I
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sha be obged to eave the servce and Court of
your august daughter can mar my |oy. Lord e
s young and handsome. e has gven me three
dozen ovey kerchefs, wth huge coronets traced n
red n the corner. Lord e must return to Ireand
to obtan hs parents consent. I fee sure Your
Poya ghness w pardon my audacty, but I coud
not hep communcatng the news to the Iustrous
Lady who has aways been so good to me snce the
day, thrty years ago, when I entered choss
Taarbruck for the frst tme. I was then twenty,
and Your Poya ghness the farest among egbe
prncesses. I know Lord e mght be my son,
but somehow I am younger than he. I |ump back to
my teens n hs presence. ow he came to ove me
st remans a mystery. ut he does ove me I
ook forward to Your Poya ghness s good wshes,
and reman ever Your Poya ghness s devoted
servant,
Toptz.
rauen L to her Mother.
Impera Paace,
rena.
Dear Mother,
The od goose has stretched out her
wrnked neck and the noose now encrces t. he
possesses at east three thousand ous d or. e
s tryng to get them out of the thck-headed ump.
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he raves wth ove, and s frmy convnced that
the Irsh ord s smtten wth her charms. The
Empress hersef shakes wth aughter, and the
Emperor has sent hs second physcan to nqure
after the rauen s menta state. urrah The
three thousand sha be ours
LL.
Georgna, Empress of reneurech, to the
Duchess von dngen.
Dear Mother,
I pass over the trfng ncdents whch
preceded our entrance nto the ane where ngona
chute had promsed to fa from her horse and
spran her anke. ut on our way |oachm |oned
us, much to hs wfe s astonshment, and, I may say,
annoyance. e does not seem to ook up to Lna
Marna as much as he used to. ut then, who s n
ove after a few years of con|uga wear and tear
Matthew may stand as a bewderng e cepton.
e, drecty he heard our pan, |oachm decared
he coud not aow ngona to run even the smaest
chance of a rsk. chute protested, and sad hs
ngona was ony too happy to render a sght
servce to the Empress and the dscusson mght
have ended n a quarre but for an awkward stum-
bng movement made by |oachm s sprted Irsh
hunter, and |oachm was sent rght over the anma s
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head. Dd the horse stumbe by accdent, or was he
urged aganst a stone by hs rder s own choce
e dd not nqure nto partcuars. |oachm was
pae wth suppressed pan, and Doctor chute
decared that the august and enghtened Prnce had
broken hs eft coar-bone. broken coar-bone
Much preferabe to a spraned anke e a
aghted, protected from the gatherng crowd by our
equerres.
Ths happened n front of a cottage, but not
|ohanna s dweng. t, |oachm waked up to
the ow gate where the Grey famy stood, the father
hodng a tte boy n hs arms. |ohanna came up
to us. he has retaned the manners and gat of a
Poya ady, whereas |ohn Grey shook hands wth me
and |oachm wthout gettng rd of hs sma whm-
perng charge. e s decdedy handsome, and
hods hs head we erect. |ohanna asked us to
wak n.
The house bears token of unmstakabe poverty
and unceasng effort to keep every corner of t as cean
as possbe. The dngy sttng-room was fed wth
fowers tuberoses, |essamne and tups, a gorous
coecton whose acquston must have taken a the
resources of the famy, and whch ooked humated
to be seen n such a pace. 0d paythngs, a wa
pucneo wth hs wooen nteror comng out, were
thrust n a heap behnd an arm-char. ngona
chute s ovey eyes gazed on everythng wth a
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gance of du ncreduty, and whenever |ohanna
approached her, rose and dropped a ow reverence.
Pease, pease, sad |ohanna, hdng her swoen
fngers beneath a bt of ragged ace pease forget
Estaa. You are here n the house of Mrs. |ohn
Grey.
The tte gr payed wth my rdng-whp and,
caressng the gt hande, asked tmdy, hat s
ths
whp.
No, no, repeated the chd what s ths
hande.
No ths, and she struck the meta wth her
tny fst. Ths he ponted to the ncorrupt-
be meta, source of every corrupton.
God. That s god, chd.
God hat s god
The dea came upon me that the tte gr had
never seen god before, and my eyes fed wth tears.
Then she asked me
eautfu ady, do you ever cry
I nodded assent.
ow many tmes a day do you cry
e, chd, I do not cry every day. There
are even days and days when I never cry at a.
he ooked at me dubousy, then whspered,
Mother cres every day, three and four tmes a day,
but never when father s there. Then she asked
gravey, ho are you
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The Empress of reneurech.
0h, then you are the ady of the fary tae, who
drops pears and damonds and roses out of her mouth
every tme she speaks.
|ohanna came up and sad, Georgna, tte Maa
s very ntrusve, I know. Leave the ady s sde,
Maa. ut the chd cung to me, and sad, he
s an Empress. I am watng to pck up the pears
and damonds that w run down from her
mouth.
he ths was gong on, ngona was beng
made very uncomfortabe by her husband, who
nssted upon her sttng wth hm on the sofa where
|oachm had been ad. |oachm was feversh and
e cted, and Lna s attentons got on hs nerves. s
she strove to undo hs seeve, Your hands are awk-
ward and heavy, sad he et Mrs. chute touch my
arm wth her gente fngers. Doctor chute and
Lna Marna mght have shown some sgns of |eaousy,
but they dd not ngona, nstead of compyng
wth the Prnce s request, sat perfecty st, whe
|oachm went on moanng and peadng for her
assstance . . . hat new game s |oachm up to
Is he makng ove to ngona . . . I have gven
you every deta so far of that notabe after-
noon, but st the most mportant event s eft
untod. . . .
|ohn Grey was soon engaged n a whspered con-
versaton wth ngona, and |ohanna saw to the
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remova of the chdren, who were becomng boster-
ous. Then arrved a dsh of ros and a tray borne
by a woman n grey, wth a whte coar a woman
pan but attractve n features, ta, suppe, and
atogether so unke a parour-mad that I stared at
her, and she returned my stare wth unaffected ease.
It s not every day that a mad bearng a tray, a mad
n a suburban cottage, can gaze upon an Empress.
Mechancay she deposted the tray and the dsh
upon the tabe, then waked back to the door but
on the threshod she stopped and sowy took n the
whoe aspect of the room wth a ts nmates.
uety her eyes wandered from face to face, wth
dgnty and sef-possesson. er fngers were on the
door, ready to push t open, when once more she
ooked back, and as her gance fe upon Doctor
chute, wth one short cry she ran across the room
to the pace where I stood, and, graspng my arm,
e camed n futterng, suppcatng accents
That man and she ponted to the doctor, that
man, he s my husband my awfu husband nd
he w be answerabe to God for hs sns. You are
the wfe of the Emperor, the ruer of ths and.
Te the Emperor that my husband has ut, as
she uttered the ast words, she stopped short her
grasp on my arm rea ed, and she shvered from
head to foot. Doctor chute now stood besde her,
and ooked straght nto her eyes.
o you have escaped, have you sad he n sow,
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cy tones, whe the wretched creature seemed to
shrve and dmnsh beneath hs gaze. Madam,
added the Doctor, turnng to me, I beg Your
Ma|esty s pardon for the mpertnence of ths ady
my sster.
Your wfe Your wfe put n the fororn
woman.
My sster, sad the Doctor frmy. he has
been for years nsane, and shut up n the asyum at
0cees. he tred once or twce to fng hersef out
of wndow there, and her reason, whch she ost at
my mother s death, has never agan returned to
her.
Do not beeve hm do not beeve hm
gasped the woman, whe the spectators of ths
ncredbe scene tred to prevent me from hearng
her broken sentences.
I pushed |ohanna and |ohn Grey asde, for I was
resoved to be as we nformed as possbe con-
cernng the sster of Doctor chute or hs wfe.
Pooh sad the Doctor, madwomen are ars
that s we known. Your estmate of your
poston w never hod aganst mne, poor Eza. I
must get you back to your comfortabe home and
the care of your knd physcan.
You have deceved hm, too, as you woud deceve
er Ma|esty, sobbed the mserabe woman, whe
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There, there be quet, be reasonabe, Eza,
sad chute, wth a paterna gesture and a pat on
her shouders. There, there I w aow you to
stay here wth your frends, Mr. and Mrs. Grey, t
Chrstmas, f you are good. ut eave off ths
comedy. Pemember ths ady s the Empress of
reneurech.
Yes, yes, I know she s the Empress Georgna,
and ths s my ony chance of escape my ony
chance. Madam, have mercy 0h, Madam, sten
to my tae he had faen on her knees before
me, and wth casped hands rased her desperate face
to mne.
egone sad chute to her resoutey, but I
waved hm away.
Doctor chute, no one has arght to gve any
orders n my presence.
ut Doctor chute had ost a contro of hmsef,
and went so far as to buy hs so-dsant wfe, and
the event mght have come to an abrupt end, be-
cause my anger urged me to eave the pace, when
an une pected nterference brought the whoe affar
to a crss. ngona chute, who had so far
remaned n the background, quety waked up to
the front of my char, and, wth a reverence whch
Madame de Pompadour mght have enved, craved
my permsson to address the stranger, who st
remaned at my feet, notwthstandng Doctor
chute s persstent efforts to get her away.
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Madam, sad ngona, I crave Your Ma|esty s
permsson to have a prvate ntervew wth ths
ady, who s ether my sster-n-aw or or my
husband s frst wfe.
I bowed acquescence n ngona s desre. I
was mpressed by her tranqu drectness. he
touched Eza s bowed head.
Pse, sad she. I w not harm you. I am
ngona chute, or at east am caed so, because
every one beeves that I am hs wfe.
Don t make a foo of yoursef, ngona, nter-
posed Doctor chute. I w not aow you to
speak to ths madwoman.
If she s your sster, you cannot refuse to et me
do my duty by her. If she s not you sha not
prevent me from earnng the truth.
Doctor chute quaed and receded, and ngona
put her arm round Eza s wast.
Lna Marna now stepped forward. er
Ma|esty gve me precous permsson to add one
word
Yes, Lna, I sad, you may speak and, frst of
a, I wsh to say that Mrs. chute s decson to
nqure nto Eza s condton s perfecty rght, and
peases me we.
Yet, ngona dear, sad Lna Marna, thnk for
a moment before you take the word of one whom
your husband decares rresponsbe. Your husband
has never gven you any cause to doubt hs
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oyaty, and he has shown you every kndness and
affecton.
ut ngona s set ps and determned atttude
cooed Lna Marna s eoquence, and the two women
retreated to the ad|onng room, whch was the
nursery.
Grave and soemn was the assemby over whch
I presded n thrng sence. The prveges of
Poyaty now encompassed me. No comments, no
ausons, no reproaches coud be made whe I ooked
from one face to the other, notng that the Doctor s
under-p and beard quvered, that he ooked sud-
deny oder and more bent that Lna Marna s
e ctement was qute strkngy out of proporton to
her persona nterest n the matter that |ohn Grey
was preposterousy pae and that |ohanna, a un-
conscousy, had assumed the same aspect of severe
dgnty as was manfested by me towards the persons
present. e, |ohanna and mysef, were above and
beyond the pae of human events a knd of mute
sympathy unted me wth the daughter of kngs and
queens, wth the ony creature there who was born
and fet ke me. In sent obedence to our
tradtons, we moved towards each other, and soon
stood aoof from the an ous knot of nferors, among
whom the fne and careworn features of |ohanna s
husband were conspcuous. ut she had forgotten
hm. Urged by the secret nstncts whose utterance
ove had smothered, she now acted as one apart, as
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the member of a ofty brotherhood separated from
the rest of manknd.
0h, Georgna, what s ths she e camed.
nd then n a whsper, My mad has been wth
me for a few days ony. he has gven no sgns of
madness none whatever, and has not gven the
smaest cause for compant. e are obged to
keep ony one servant. he does the cookng, and I
ook after the chdren.
gan my eyes fe on |ohanna s reddened and
swoen hands, and I recaed the former decacy of
her sm and taperng fngers. That the bue bood
consecrated by the w of God, and by centures of
ardent devoton of natons shoud run n those dark
greensh vens seemed a thng marveous and
caamtous to me. e may speak and act, and even
try to thnk, ke the peope wth whom we come
nto touch, but whatever happens, we reman chosen
ndvduas. It was wth a rega demeanour that
|ohanna went on gvng a mnute account of her
poverty and her humbe poston
Yesterday I heped Eza to make a pe. e
had a tte chat together. he s peasant and we
bred. Georgna, s t possbe that Doctor chute
may be somethng to her e acknowedges her
as hs sster. Georgna, I have aways been afrad
of Doctor chute. s marrage was such a
snguar affar, too. It took pace amost mmed-
atey after after he stammered, and wth
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that awkward gesture of hers tred agan to hde
her hands beneath the bt of ace that adorned her
corsage. Then she gazed straght before her to
where |ohn Grey, hs handsome head we erect,
towered above Doctor chute s dmnutve fgure.
0ne short gance at the face whose every feature
she adored recaed |ohanna to her poston, and
wth a dgnty more womany than rega, she con-
tnued : fter I went away wth the man I oved,
wth |ohn Grey, ngona entered nto her oveess
marrage. hat can they be confdng to each
other nd |ohanna ponted to the door.
The sound of voces came from wthn. few
mnutes of breathess e pectaton, and ngona
chute entered aone. er husband rushed to
meet her, and Lna Marna foowed cose on hs
hees. ut there was that on her face and n her
whoe appearance that made both the Doctor and
Lna Marna stop suddeny. chute s fngers cutched
the corner of the tabe aganst whch he rested hs
swayng body to prevent hmsef from fang.
Lna Marna gave a ow, tragc cry. My chd
ngona came up to me and, kssng my e -
tended hand wth feversh ps, sad, I crave Your
Ma|esty s permsson to eave her presence at once
and aone.
You may go, ngona, sad I. 0ne of the
equerres sha show you the way out of the suburb.
one, aone peaded ngona.
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Yes, you may go aone, dear.
gan she kssed my hand, and turned away.
chute and |oachm |oned her n two strdes, |ust
as she had opened the door. he turned sharpy
round and peremptory e camed, I sad aone.
oon we heard the catterng of her horse s hoofs.
chute was about to eave the room, forgettng
hmsef so far as not to take eave of the Empress or
the mstress of the house. I sad to |ohn Grey, who
had remaned dumb-strcken and motoness, No
one sha eave ths room before I permt them to
do so.
|ohn Grey touched the Doctor s seeve, but the
hapess man moved as one n a nghtmare. |ohn
Grey then spoke to hm : The Empress forbds you
to depart. ut chute appeared not to under-
stand, and waked on. Then |ohn Grey repeated n
stentoran tones, You cannot go. er Ma|esty s
commands must be obeyed.
end a messenger to the Paace, sad I. Lna
Marna and |oachm must have a carrage. I sha
rde back, but not yet not before the wfe of
Doctor chute has had tme to regan her home
n peace.
s I sad the wfe of Doctor chute, the Doctor,
who had not fted hs eyes to my face, rushed for-
ward eagery: My wfe ngona s my wfe, my
ony wfe Your Ma|esty must not beeve the
cam of an mpostor, a madwoman I can prove
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she s but a madwoman. The physcan s etters
concernng her menta state are n my possesson.
he s my sster my sster Eza
Pease, Doctor chute, forbear. The Empress
s not used to scenes and to voence forbear, sad
|ohn Grey.
wfty and steathy a shadow gded between
the Doctor s trembng form and me, and once more
the mysterous woman stood face to face wth the
man whom she perssted n cang her husband.
Doctor chute, sad she meeky, the hour of
atonement s at hand. I dd not seek vengeance,
but my cravng for |ustce has not proved van.
You are doomed. The adorabe beng whom you
ca your wfe, and whom you ove, has seen the
proofs of your vany.
There are no proofs, gasped the Doctor, heedess
of the haf-avowa betrayed by these words.
Doctor chute, sad I, you must retre. It
now es wth you to make your e panaton of these
events cear and acceptabe to the Emperor. Lna
and |oachm, we w stop here t the Doctor s we
on hs way towards the town. . . .
Mother dear, empresses are not wont to phoso-
phze nor to thnk of much but themseves, yet as
the man dsappeared, as Eza n her turn eft the
sma parour, I took my head between my hands
and fet as f anges or devs were tryng to fy away
wth t.
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0n the mornng that foowed these ophocean
scenes, the Emperor s gh Chamberan sent me
the offca verson of my vst to |ohanna s cottage.
It ran thus
It has been the peasure of er Gracous Ma|esty
the Empress to rde out wth s Impera ghness
Prnce |oachm and tran. Two ades, a genteman,
and three equerres had the honour of accompanyng
er Ma|esty. (The names of Lna Marna and of
the chutes were purposey omtted Lna Marna
s a non-e stent personage n offca eyes.) In
one of the anes that ead out of the town and on
the road to the Impera summer resdence whch
er Ma|esty vsts from tme to tme, the horse of
s Impera ghness Prnce |oachm took frght,
boted and fnay stumbed. Unwng to use whp
or spur on the handsome anma, the Prnce, though
an e ceent horseman, ost hs baance, fe and n-
|ured hs shouder. oon a crowd gathered, and
shouts of reef and grattude to eaven arose when
the peope earned that the Prnce was but sghty
n|ured. uch s the respect and affecton bestowed
upon the Impera famy by every cass, that the
women present waved the handkerchefs that were
st wet wth ther tears. 0ne of the commoners,
whose humbe dweng stood n front of the pace
where the accdent happened, a Mrs. Grey (sc),
hestatngy e pressed the hope that s Impera
ghness woud degn to honour her roof by con-
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234 P0Y L L0VEP
descendng to be carred nto her cottage. Gracousy
Prnce |oachm acceded to Mrs. Grey s request, and
er Ma|esty the Empress hersef entered ths house.
The Empress was an ous to see that the spraned
shouder shoud be we attended to. fter a few
mnutes, the Impera party took eave of Mrs. Grey,
the Empress bestowng a sme and words of knd-
ness upon every one present. Prnce |oachm was
taken back by hs equerres to hs paace, whe er
Ma|esty |oned the Emperor n the Impera gardens.
h, mother, s fasehood, then, the ndspensabe
companon of our every movement
Your devoted
Georgna.
ngona chute to |ohn Grey.
Innsbrck.
You asked me the other day n what way you
had been the run of my fe. That man who s
not my husband asked me to become hs wfe on the
very day the Prncess |ohanna tod me that you
desred to prove that there was no ove between us.
nd yet that very mornng . . . rom depths of
msery as nfnte as the happness I had dreamed of
possessng and bestowng, do I send you what s
worse than forgveness and worse than maedctons
my utter despar. May t mnge wth your every
breath.
ngona.

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|ohanna Grey to ngona chute .
rena.
ngona, ngona, you have broken my heart,
as I broke yours that afternoon n Estaa. Ths s
|ustce, and though I wrthe under the bow, I am
uncompanng. I deceved you, ngona, and I
tod an untruth that day n my mother s paace.
May God forgve me ut my husband, my beoved
and once devoted husband, w reman ne orabe n
hs contempt for me. I gave up everythng to foow
hm, but I aso forfeted honour when I eft Estaa.
nd ths he dd not know. nd ths your etter to
hm has reveaed It s true that he wated n the
ha for an answer, but not the answer I mpored
you to gve, because the desre I e pressed n hs
name was not hs, but mne mne.
as ngona, I oved hm mady, and I was
then a kng s daughter, more crue and btter n many
respects than other women. I had been taught
to count upon havng a that humanty coud avsh
at my feet, and when I found that |ohn onged to
fy from our Court, and take you away wth hm, I
sad, You cannot do that: ngona s betrothed
to another man.
The e struck hm amost dead and as he
recovered, he muttered, Very we, then f you
can prove that ths s not a mere Court tae, I w
go aone. I answered
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|ohn Grey, trust me, trust the Prncess |ohanna
of ngaga. I w queston ngona and you
sha earn the truth.
hen I returned to hm from you, I sad you had
acknowedged your betrotha, and wth the fasehood
st afame upon my ps, I decared to hm that
wherever he shoud go, I woud go, that I was ready
to abandon my famy and my rank n hs favour.
I took the brused reed between my burnng hands.
|ohn Grey was too unstrung and too unhappy to
add my wretchedness to hs, and as he sad, Very
we, then come, I arranged the pan of our
eopement.
You know the resut. You have seen t: poverty,
sotude, abour unrequted, and sometmes the
shadow of hatred towerng above what we tred to
ca ove. There e sts no msfortune unprovoked,
and mne s entrey my own dong. I trust that
when I have shown ths etter to my husband, and
thus proved to hm that I am not qute ost to the
knowedge of good and ev, he may be a tte more
mercfu to one who renounced a for the sake of
hs ove. nd he had amost earnt to ove me
|ohanna.
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0Y L L0VEP 237
0btrude, ueen of ngaga to Lna
Marna, Countess of Mamorda.
Dear Lna,
I am much affected by crcumstances
whch compe me to wrte to you on a sub|ect
htherto avoded by our famy. I had ntended to
mantan for ever my resentment aganst one whose
name s forbdden to be mentoned at my Court.
ut the heart of a mother, however smothered by
prde and wrath, has some rght to prove ncon-
sstent. n equerry-n-watng on the Empress of
reneurech has wrtten to one of my ades that
the Mrs. Grey wth whom the Empress took tea a
week ago, s no other than my daughter |ohanna.
nd a ong descrpton of poverty and haggard faces
and wretchedy-cad chdren fs the man s etter.
you kndy convert the encosed cheque nto
cash, and make a persona gft of the sum to the
guty and hapess par I suppose I may rey on
you to keep my acton and persona sentments n
ths matter secret Much ove to |oachm and
yoursef.
0rtrude, P.
Pease tear up ths etter.
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Lna Marna to er Ma|esty the ueen of
NIG GLI .
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Madam,
0n recept of Your Ma|esty s etter, wth
empressement and fervour I set out to e ecute Your
Poya commands. ut when I reached the house
of Mr. and Mrs. |ohn Grey, bearng n a purse the
sum of money, I found the cottage empty, and I
heard from a neghbour that Mr. |ohn Grey had
eft hs house twenty-four hours before, and that
hs wfe and chdren had n ther turn dsappeared
shorty after. pparenty, Mrs. Grey had sod her
ast remanng bts of |ewery n order to pay off
sma debts contracted wth the butcher and baker.
he gave no e panaton concernng her departure,
but ooked as one fororn and uttery desperate.
The neghbours seem to beeve there had been
some knd of estrangement between husband and
wfe. Every one n the ane where they ved thnks
hghy of them, and speaks of ther strenuous efforts
to gan a vehood.
I am Your Ma|esty s humbe and devoted ervant,
Lna Marna.
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Doctor chute to hs rother, Country
Physcan.
Dear rother,
If my wfe, ngona chute, cas on
you, as t s her ntenton to do, refuse to receve
her, and f you cannot shut your doors upon her,
n the name of our mother and of our chdhood,
refuse to gve her even the sghtest partcuars
concernng me or the woman who ded n the
asyum before I marred her. I beseech you to
reman sent.
ngona I cannot ose ngona do you
understand or nghts I have an awake, tor-
mented by the possbty of never seeng her
beoved eyes agan. Most peope, I magne, woud
be gad to earn that I am sufferng I am tortured
as f a the Torquemadas of the Inquston had set
ther mnds on makng me the chef among martyrs.
Yes, brother, I am heart-broken I count vanty
and weath as naught the Emperor s favour, the
bows and smes of courters, my coossa weath, my
prncey dweng are to me as f they dd not e st.
I must regan my wfe s confdence and her affecton.
he dd not ove me as a young and beautfu woman
oves the man of her choce, but she ooked up to
me, she trusted me, she respected Lord she was
the ony creature n the word who trusted and
respected chute. rother, brother, promse not
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to revea who the woman was who ded. he s
dead, I te you he s dead
chute.
The Empress of reneurech to s Ma|esty
the Emperor.
rena.
Dear Matthew,
You are ever a-huntng, chasng the wd
deer and the brds. hen most needed at home,
the Emperor must spend hs tme wth a few frends
n one of hs dstant huntng-odges or you are
wanted here. Doctor chute, whom I have aways
suspected to be a preposterousy cever van, has
bossomed out n hs rea character n a most un-
e pected way. It appears he has commtted bgamy.
s wfe s st ave. e kept her n a mad-house,
t the woman broke away. I saw her. Truth s
wrtten n her face.
Matt s a rght, but st frghtens me. hat a
wcked boy have we brought upon the scene of ths
word, you and I nd he w be Emperor one day
w dea out the good and ev that t es n the
power of a monarch to scatter aong hs road The
mschef that chd gets nto s e traordnary.
ometmes I thnk he s worthy of our fata dn-
gen bood, but there are moments when he remnds
me of hs pansh ancestors. or they were ferce
overs of tragc scenes and dare-dev vocatons.
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Death was ever ther favourte paymate. . . .
Yesterday Matt crept unseen through the vaut to
the open coffn, the very sght of whch makes me
shudder. Then he eapt nto t, and ay there quet
and content, wth the urd ght of the ta sver
chandeers payng upon hs face. fter twenty
mnutes en|oyment of the horrbe pasantere, the
boy began to whste, and you may pcture to your-
sef the started e camatons of the offcers on
guard, who amost et ther swords drop. Matt
sprang up ke a young deer, and stood erect n the
coffn, and aughed and aughed, whe the men, haf-
reeved, haf-stupefed, crossed themseves repeatedy.
Ths s qute pansh, Matthew, and as the rench
woud say, nqwtant. I cannot hep beng
uneasy. . . .
I have seen some of the prncesses ths afternoon
we were a host of mummes, I assure you. They
mtate me to perfecton, and ther voces have
dropped to a knd of sy twtter. No one can
understand what they say, so I am spared ther
roya nonsense. I am more rreverent than ever,
and I am sure you w frown (one of your evanescent
frowns) over these nes. I hear my ades ca me
Meanchoa. I have not smed for two months.
0h, why are we born what are we and to what
shore do we drft
Georgna.
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Prncess hema of ngaga to her
ster, the Empress 0va.
Dearest 0va,
Estaa s becomng a quet pace now that
the boom s worn off, the boom of a Court where
three egbe Prncesses were aways payng the
part of ster nne n uebeard: ster nne,
ster nne, who s comng to the rescue ho w
prevent us from fang nto the pt of od-maden-
hood nd ster nne saw the pumes of an
emperor wavng n the wnd, and off the Emperor
carred one of the far prncesses carred her to a
and where the fares are red-hared murderesses.
nd ster nne saw the hemet of the knght
caed Love, and t shone brght n the sun, and the
knght caed Love carred the second far mad
away to a fate of mystery and darkness. nd now
ster nne s aone on the sotary tower, nor does
she care to contnue her amorous watch. ster
nne s content by the hearth whch the other two
have abandoned, and ster nne w be what the
other two woud have shuddered to become a
queen n her own rght.
Ths dreadfu and crushng news was tod to me
ths mornng. 0ur mother s sendng the ngaga
Parament nto aternate fts of surprse, ve aton
and admraton. he decares the crown sha not
go to that vague nephew of hers who has never eft
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hs natve German duchy, and woud certany
convert Dana s tempe nto a berhae, and as you
have renounced your rght to the throne, and poor
|ohanna has put hersef out of the queston, I am to
become the eress pparent of the Crown, n a
word, the Prncess Poya and I am deveopng
great capactes, before unknown to every one, even
to mysef. .
Now, I suppose, my charmng od-madenhood w
fnd stout assaants, and be beseged by a haf-score
of prncey second sons, an ous to become consorts
an honour rusty enough, I must say, and one
whch I shoud ke to bestow on a fne mbece or
a very ntegent tte monster, a squntng feow
who woud make fe peasant wth hs wt and
saes, and save me from yawnng over my ntervews
wth statesmen and chamberans. ut where s the
handsome mbece the wtty monkey to be found
I am aready smothered n ermne, and sha take
precedence of papa, a case as yet unprecedented.
Poor mamma t s a good thng a these potca
arrangements keep her from more sombre thoughts.
e have no news of |ohanna. Ts true that we had
not heard anythng about her for years, but then we
beeved she ed a smpe and perhaps a happy fe.
You know a: her encounter wth Georgna of re-
neurech, and then her dsappearance, and the heart-
rendng tae of her poverty. ow s t courters
succeed n forcng us to sme away the mpresson
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whch cngs to and darkens our most ntmate
thoughts Yet we go on, prde-encrusted, haughty,
gracous, ost n the depths of our wonderfu and
despcabe sef-contro. nd |ohanna, who has been
brought up to the same standard, s we abe to
understand and e cuse our tradtona and nevtabe
nsensbty.
In the meantme, from Court to Court the story
eaps eectrc-ke. That od cat, the Duchess von
dngen, purrs wth |oy over t. 0ne must needs
be a prncess onesef not to be bored by the ways of
prncesses. Ths one, whose daughter s ovey and
an Empress, dreamt of a monopoy n Impera sons-
n-aw, and she cannot forgve you for beng a
Ma|esty, and mother for havng the prvege of
cang an emperor my chd. My chd Mother
w never reaze that the affectonate epthet sts
on your husband as uneasy as a dove n a bush of
thorns. hy, mamma coud be your husband s
daughter 0f course, the Duchess makes straght
for that fact, reves n t, and grnds your husband s
years n that most abomnabe of a saw-ms, her
quaverng, fase-teethed mouth. ut Georgna s
|ewes are nothng to yours. The spendour of your
Court surpasses the goomy grandeur of Georgna s.
The Empre over whch the Emperor, your august
spouse, hods sway, s mmense, mysterous, and haf-
satc the pomp whch envrons you both makes
you amost dvne. 0n your way the peope knee,
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and wth tears and prayers ft ther ecstatc faces to
yours. I cannot ca Georgna s poston second-rate,
but n many respects yours s superor, more
attractve to the magnaton. ...
Takng of Georgna, I hear she s makng hersef
dsked n reneurech. 0ny the respect that has
been pad for centures to the dynasty prevents open
comment on her manners and conduct. pparenty
she s foowng n the footprnts of her cousn ng
rederc. he treats her husband de haut en bas
her ades crouch before her ke frghtened spanes
she speaks n sepuchra tones, and so ow that ears
at the Court of rena are becomng ong wth the
stran. he wears her mmense quantty of har
oose on her shouders t reaches the hem of her
ong tran, and she stens to ts rustng sound as
she moves, a-absorbed and ke a shadow, among
the wonderng and awed groups of courters and
nobemen. young dpomat who has been recenty
removed from rena to Estaa has tod one of my
ades a ot of gossp about the fe ed by the
Impera famy. oregners do not hestate to
decare that Georgna s stark mad, and the
Emperor too deepy mmersed n hs nfatuaton for
her to see that she s makng hm rdcuous. 0ne
or two anecdotes I must reate, whch w certany
amuse your husband and your frend, the Prncess
Padnsky. Those dngens are a degenerates,
beeve me.
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or nstance: the Emperor had vany nssted on
the advsabty of hs wfe s presence at the staton
when he had to eave rena on offca busness.
Georgna had gven a fat refusa, and so t was
arranged that gentemen ony shoud wat on the
Emperor when he eft. Last month, hs departure
for one of the northern dstrcts of the Empre was
pompousy announced. n hour before the Emperor
qutted the Impera paace, Georgna rode out wth
her three equerres. he rode beyond the suburbs,
far away from the town. he wore, as usua, a bg,
fu-bown red rose over her heart. uddeny the
Empress turned her horse s head towards rena,
and, wth set features, spurred the anma t he
fed aong the road. The equerres tore after her
ke mad. parks few from the fnts under the
swft hoofs. They raced aong, t the trees seemed
to be bowed by a voent tempest as they passed,
t they saw nothng. t ast, breathess, amost
dead wth the e erton, the Empress rened n her
horse. thout watng for assstance, she aghted.
They were n front of the staton, and above the
budng a coud of smoke showed that a tran
was about to steam out. The Empress entered
the ha, and rushed to the patform, where, n the
mdst of a gtterng group, the Emperor stood.
e ganced at hs foam-covered and trembng
wfe wth a ook amost of agony. he took the
rose from her breast and gave t to hm, whe
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beads of perspraton stood on hs brow. e was
nervng hmsef for some dreadfu scene of mad-
ness. ut Georgna smpy threw her arms round
hs neck, wshed hm a peasant |ourney, pcked
up the tran of her habt and gded away as pre-
cptatey as she had come. The offcers and prnces
present made the best of the affar, and the news-
papers gave a pausbe account of t, but they dd
not succeed n suppressng the truth. Georgna s
madness soon became the prevang topc of
ntmate conversaton.
nother day, as she was crossng a brdge on
horseback, she notced some soders who, owng to
the oppressve heat, were bathng n the rver. he
stopped short, drew a sketch-book from her pocket
and began to sketch away, whe the men, a
unwttng of the honour bestowed upon them, danced
naked n the coo water beow.
he waks the Paace at nght, wrapped n a oose
garment of whte and sver, and to those whom she
meets she decares, I am the Moon. Many of the
nobemen who wat upon the Emperor are mady n
ove wth her. 0f course she cannot prevent ths, but
somehow t shoud not be. Now she has taken t nto
that burnng head of hers to trave abroad. Probaby
we sha see her arrvng here one of these fne morn-
ngs Estaa, ts tempes and myths and gods are n
her ne. he s not Gothc-mnded, ke that cousn
she s so proud of, ng rederc. he ncnes
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towards the cassc. I wonder f she s as great an
gnoramus as we a
Mother has been qute snce the news about
|ohanna. nd what must the chdren my
nephews and yours, after a be ke ancy the
startng m ture of roya bood wth the Grey
neage ute a pot-pourr. . . . 0va, s t wth
your consent or your husband s ony that the Prncess
adnsky wrtes to mother Do be confdenta
wth me, f ony once.
I am your devoted, qute devoted, sster,
L ELM .
The Empress 0va to her Mother, 0rtkude,
ueen of ngaga.
Dearest Mother,
I am a rght, and the chdren too. Ltte
edor had ony a sma bruse. hat sha I reate
My bran s st fu of the dreadfu sounds my
heart st beats qucky t beats so hard aganst
the tabe as I wrte that I hear ts throbs the du
revot of my vens aganst our fate.
You know we are aways n per. My husband s
traned to the eterna danger he aughs fear away,
though I can see how an ousy hs eyes run aong
the ne of sodery that skrts the streets as we
pass. oders, bayonets, swords, a wa of stee
arses on a sdes of our carrage, whether we go to
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the cathedra or to take a smpe drve. etween
my eyes and the farness of our scenery, between my
eyes and the rsng or settng sun, or the gaze of
muttude, or the thrng sotudes whose aspect
mght end peace, the ron obstaces are aways set.
They gmmer and fash the message: You are
prsoners our cod ghtnngs must aways sepa-
rate you from the rest of the word. e protect
you we protect the chdren. 0h, mother my
an ety for the chdren s becomng amost unbear-
abe. I say, amost, because every day the mts of
human endurance e tend farther, and even as I
reach them, ke the horzon, they vansh. ut I am
dgressng. . . .
e reached the staton safey. Every wndow,
every door had been cosed as we passed, and tte
Poberta asked me, Mamma, are a the peope who
ve n the houses bnd, that they do not open ther
wndows to see the Emperor and the Empress, and
our gded coach and our ta back horses Then
she nqured, Do other tte grs see as many
swords as we do
The Prncess adnsky was n the carrage wth
us, our escort precedng and foowng us, the
Emperor rdng ahead. uddeny the cortge came
to an abrupt stop, and an equerry, stoopng down
from hs charger, tod the Prncess that a rumour
was crcuatng among the Emperor s tran of a
murderous attempt n preparaton aganst us. In
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fact, the staton was to be bown up |ust before we
shoud get nto the tran. Prncess adnsky paed
on hearng ths, and I sent word to the Emperor,
mporng that we gve up the |ourney. ut he
rode steadfasty on, and we had to foow. s the
staton came nto vew, I amost fanted wth terror.
e aghted from the hgh coach. I coud nether
remonstrate nor resst. I was as t were mad wth
terror, and ony the fear of ncurrng one of the
Emperor s terrbe fts of fury kept me from shrekng
aoud. Three chamberans ceared the way for me,
and three others for the chdren. Ltte edor and
Poberta were themseves awed. They cannot fee
nor sme ke other babes, they are aged by the
perpetua tenson they notce around them. The
other mornng, Poberta s do was found to be fu
of dynamte. Even paythngs are nstruments of
death beneath our roof. . . .
More dead than ave, deaf to the trumpha strans
of the Impera nthem, bnd to the fact that
brght dames and ords craved a word or even a
sgn from me, I found mysef n the bue and sver
compartment arranged as a boudor for me. There
the Emperor |oned me, and sad, e w keep
the chdren wth us. e, 0va, you see we are
not dead yet.
There s st tme, I answered.
The tran s about to start, he reped, and
remember, the poce reported that the deed was to
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be attempted before we got nto the raway carrage.
Ths tme ther pans have mscarred.
Ths tme ths tme, I echoed mournfuy.
The tran moved sowy out of the staton, and I
summoned the energy to stand n one of the bg
wndows and make up by smes for my nvountary
rudeness.
The Poce Master came up to the Emperor and
sad, Your Ma|esty has had an amost mracuous
escape. our wretches were aready at work n a
mne contrved not far from the staton, and eadng
straght to the offca patform, where Your Ma|esty
stood but a few moments ago.
nd where are the cuprts asked the Emperor
sterny. (0h, mother, an autocrat s so dfferent
from every other breathng creature )
In prson, sre, and they are to be hanged
to-morrow mornng, uness Your Ma|esty desres
some other chastsement to be bestowed upon
them.
No et the feows dange.
The Poce Master drew a sheet of paper from hs
pocket: Your Ma|esty s sgnature.
Pght, sad the Emperor. ut where s the
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re|oced n my heart, thnkng that, perhaps, f the
pen were not there, I shoud fnd the courage to
nterfere. nay I stammered
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edor dear, to-morrow s Poberta s brthday.
hat present w you gve your tte gr
Now, edor s e tremey fond of Poberta, and hs
face softened as I spoke of hs chd. e sad :
hatever she asks me for s hers.
Then I took Poberta asde, whe her father went
on takng to the grm man wth the death-warrant
n hs hands, and tod her to sue for the ves of
the four men whose abomnabe schemes had been
drected aganst us. Poberta turned to her father
and dd so caspng her sma hands before hm.
You shoud have seen edor, the workngs of hs
features, as she sat on hs knee and repeated the
request n babysh and resoute tones: Gve me
that paper, father. Perhaps those men have tte
Pobertas watng for them at home.
edor s aged but not weak. e has endured
many tras, and been hardened by them hs heart
s crusted over wth cyncsm. ut he dd not
resst hs sma daughter s prayer. e put the fata
paper between her fra fngers. There, Poberta,
do what you ke wth that.
prayer-book for my Pucneo, who does not
behave very we, and knocks hs hump aganst
my do s new bonnet, sad she, kssng edor
vehementy, then sprngng |oyousy away. Even
the Poce Master was moved and, reeved and
tranqu, more tranqu than I had been for months,
I turned to the Prncess Padnsky, but found
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dsapprova wrtten n her face, whose sudden
sternness ched me through.
0h, Prncess, I sad, have I have we done
wrong to save the ves of these men
I dare not |udge Your Ma|esty s actons, even n
my thoughts, but revoutonares deserve naught but
what they seek vengeance They are not appeased
by the sght of generosty, but rather strred to
boder attempts.
ut, Prncess, I remonstrated, t woud be
awfu to have four men hanged on Poberta s
brthday.
My wfe s a sentmentae, a romanesque, nter-
posed the Emperor, haf-way between takng up
my defence and attackng me. he s veuoc-|eu,
my rasonneuse, ndromaque, ermone.
I fet annoyed, but my conscence took arms n
my favour, and, turnng my head away, I tred
to ook at the passng andscape. as I had
forgotten the dark reaty, and the ong ne of
sodery whch rose on ether sde of the road a
sombre decoraton. s face after face mournfuy
gded before me, I recaed our |ourneys together,
my dear parents the svery horzons of ngaga,
the debonnare popuaton who crowded to cheer us
at every staton, the marbe hs and aure woods,
and the sunght ere a yeow haze surrounds
everythng, and knves and dynamte and guns are
ever at work. 0h f we coud but fy ut that
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s out of the queston. edor w never abandon
hs e ated rank and hs duty. nd I cannot
abandon hm, nor take the her to the throne away
from the and. . . .
0n and on we went, and the tempest of appre-
henson and horror had subsded n my breast, and
we sat to tabe n a cheerfu mood. You know the
mmense, the satc amount of spendour dspayed
by our Court: the ncredbe number of ades,
equerres, chamberans, servants, cooks, horses, cows,
pets, etc., that accompany us on our traves, and the
bewderng dspay of barbaran weath that sur-
rounds us. Durng the frst part of the mea a
went off we. e sat at a sma tabe, edor and
mysef, the chdren at another tabe wth Prncess
adnsky and ther two governesses. The babes
taked nosy, drawng ther aged father out of hs
weary revere.
uddeny, a crash, an awfu sound as of an earth-
quake rendng a creaton, screams, the heavng of
the foor beneath our feet, whe the ceng was
comng sowy down upon us hreks, was, the
sound of ron and hssng of steam, wndows fyng.
The chdren edor had rsen to hs feet, whe I
had faen parayzed to the ground, seeng around
me an abyss of back smoke and scadng water.
The chdren the chdren I screamed wth
what utterance I coud fnd. The ceng s fang
upon them They w be crushed
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Then an e traordnary sght rveted my eyes,
preventng me from ookng around. th arms
upfted and musces straned to superhuman effort,
ke tas bearng the word on hs shouders, the
Emperor propped the fang roof of the compartment.
I thought I coud hear hs musces and vertebrae
thr wth the determnaton not to gve way. Ths
asted but two mnutes, as the tran came at ength
to a fu stop or, rather, was thrown off the ras
wth a successon of |erky bounds, ke a wounded
panther. The shattered doors and was dropped
away, and we roed out of the raway carrage on
to the soft grass. edor, st erect, was now
surrounded by horrfed men, offcers and soders for
the most part, who reeved hm.
Then a scene, grand, soemn, tragc, ensued.
the peope present, some wounded, some haf-dead,
rased ther voces to thank eaven that ther
soveregn and hs famy were safe. They knet,
kssed our hands and wetted them wth tears.
The Crown Prnce, undsmayed, was by my sde,
hs arge eyes f ed on the poos of bood that
mnged wth the water.
Mother, what s t what s t he asked.
hat have we done to make God so angry wth
us Poberta sad her prayers ths mornng wthout
eavng out one word. here s Poberta
th Prncess adnsky, sad I.
ut edor, whose seven years were cooer than
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my e perenced thrtes, sad, No, she s not wth
the Prncess, and the Prncess es st so st. I
w go and wake her, and ask her what has become
of Poberta and the pucneo and the dos.
ezed wth a new apprehenson, fearfu n the
e treme, I hurred after edor.
oow the Crown Prnce, shouted some one.
s fe may st be n danger. nd where s the
tte Prncess
0n hearng the name of hs daughter, the Emperor
ost a hs admrabe sef-contro, and rushed forward,
hs powerfu frame trampng over every obstace.
The chd My tte Poberta he cred, the
tears fang rapdy from hs eyes. n eager search
began, and wth outstretched arms I foowed,
stumbng over tter of a sorts, brused, trembng,
desperate. reaths of mst rose from the negh-
bourng feds, and the sky, grey and ow, was
overspread wth goom, whe my agony ncreased.
Poberta Poberta The words ran through
the dstraught crowd. fter an hour s morta
suspense, news came at ast that the tte Prncess
was safe she had been found by a common soder,
who had searched some dstance from the pace
of the e poson. The chd ay on her back, stunned,
though unhurt, and st hodng the pucneo n
her arms. It was some tme before she was brought
to us n the man s strong arms. edor cred aoud
n hs emoton and |oy, he s safe Thank eaven,
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she s ave and, as I touched my darng s face
wth my ps I broke down and sobbed, then
suddeny fanted.
hen I recovered conscousness, Poberta had been
gven nto the care of her Engsh governess.
The appearance of the pace around the scene of
the e poson was one never to be forgotten. . . .
The Poce Captan sad to the Emperor, s those
four rascas whose ves Your Ma|esty has spared
were taken to prson, they sad to the constabe,
efore the day s many hours oder, we sha be
merry and you sad. Therefore they were assocated
wth the e poson. Your Ma|esty, consder-
ng what has happened, sgn the death-warrants
Look, sre, they are st n the tte Prncess s
hands.
No, no, answered the Emperor. I cannot
reca my word. Perhaps that sheet of paper dd
more to save the fe of my darng Poberta than a
our an ety and prayers.
In the meantme, the dead and wounded were
carred away. uddeny a sharp, h, my God
started me out of my |oy at havng both my chdren
cngng to my dress.
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s the words fe on my ears, I caught hod of
edor s sma hands and, carryng Poberta n my
arms, waked to the pace whence the e camaton
came.
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There s the Prncess, sad edor, the Prncess
Padnsky, and st aseep. ow can she seep wth
so much nose around
The Emperor stood a few steps from the prostrate
form of one whose gaety and wt had ever been the
fe of our Court. In the name of eaven, 0va,
sad he n a hoarse voce, take the chdren away.
he s dead. ump of ron fe |ust across her
tempe. The bruse s sma n appearance ook
and on the smng and handsome face of the Prncess
I notced a streak of bue, as of a rbbon, runnng
across her brow down to her cheek. way wth
the chdren, repeated the Emperor. ut Poberta
answered frmy, No, father, we w not go. e
w wake her.
ortunatey, the Engsh governess, who had not
ost her sef-contro for a moment durng the
catastrophe, now stepped forward and prevaed upon
the tte ones to foow her. Every one but the
Emperor and mysef had faen back. Twght was
comng on, and the mst became denser and denser,
t t foated ke a coud between us and the dead
woman as f her sprt had been transformed nto
the sght vaporous emanaton, whose whteness
caressed the contours of the feess cay, and
sprtuazed the meanng of death. Peverenty I
stood aoof. The Emperor gazed wth heavy, m-
penetrabe countenance. . . . Mother, though I have
never tod you though I have borne my fate
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senty you know you must have guessed that
from the very frst the Prncess Padnsky was my
foe a btter foe, whose anmosty, covered by mock
respect and fne phrases and gtterng sarcasms, cut
me to the heart. Yet I coud not hep ptyng the
Emperor, and ptyng the creature so voenty carred
off to the Pace of |ustce and Mercy. . . . edor
gazed ong at her, a unconscous of my presence.
he had been the ove of hs manhood, the star of
hs e stence. In me he has found but a dutfu,
mournfu, nspd and devoted wfe. My e treme
youth compared wth hs age s a matter of angry
contrast to hm, one on whch the Prncess sometmes
ad such stress that he was roused to fury. nd, 0
mother, t s to the Prncess I owe the presence of
Count Guo here, and my btter strugge between
honour and ove. onour has prevaed. Count
Guo now understands that the woman who shares
the Impera throne s no onger the somewhat
wayward Prncess, gueess, though guty of many
sma mprudences. e s about to eave ths
country. gan I am dgressng. . . .
s the Emperor s ta, massve frame stood out
aganst the shadows of the damp and soemn twght,
a pang of compasson fed my whoe beng, and I
touched hs ebow and whspered, ss her, edor,
and say deu I have forgven. nd I turned
away, eavng the two, the vng and the dead.
rom that hour edor s conduct towards me has
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competey changed, and I may say that, for the frst
tme snce the day of our -starred unon, I possess
the confdence and perhaps even the affecton of my
husband. e have been n our country resdence
snce unday, and we are now about to return to
town. Pumours of pots are st rfe. e cannot
trust any one. mong my frsettes ths mornng I
found, on what I took to be a curng-paper, a threat
couched n terms of unbounded cruety. . . .
I was forced to nterrupt my etter. The Emperor
desred my attendance. nd what a dscovery
0h, mother, s t possbe o much treachery and
such hypocrsy edor cannot get over the atest
shock. Imagne magne that the poce, n ther
searches, have found a etter wrtten n the Prncess
Padnsky s own hand and sgned by her a etter
whch shows pany that she, the Emperor s frend
and my constant companon, was the chef accompce
of the wretched feows who bew up the tran that
day when so many pershed, frst among them the
Prncess hersef
nd she dd not fater, but sat by our sde, know-
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pany to her, Death, death It seems that one
of the young revoutonares, a young prnce and
guardsman, was her over. e was e ecuted ast week,
but wthout betrayng her. efore mountng the
gaows, he asked, Is the Prncess Padnsky dead
ut no one cared to answer, and we beeved he had
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entertaned some persona anmosty aganst her.
The Emperor s overwhemed, crushed by the
reveaton. nd another great conspracy s n the
ar. e have sent the chdren away they w cruse
for a month or two, so ong as we are n doubt and
danger. ut have we ever been out of ether Pray
for us. ny tck of the cock may mark the moment
of our tragc end. deu, mother. nd thanks for
your tender affecton. I have wrtten to hema.
hema, Crown Prncess op ngaga, to
her ster, the Prncess 0va.
Estaa.
Dearest, dearest 0va,
ow |oyfu we a fee that you and your
dear chdren are safe ut the tenor of your ast
etter saddens me, and mother says that accordng to
the reports of those who saw you at the ast Court
functon, you are vsby depressed. as what
nervous system coud wthstand the stran of your
dreadfu e stence
The presentaton-day went off spenddy. e
rode n our magnfcent tate coach to the ouse of
Parament, mother wearng her bg crown, her
shouders weghed down by the Poya mante and I
by her sde, wth a sma crown of rubes perched on
top of my har. I ooked ke a yzantne Prncess.
e were oudy greeted by the sound of bes and
cannon the town rang wth a derum of enthusasm.
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I beeve our peope are peased wth ther young
Crown Prncess, and snce the crown must needs
descend from dstaff to dstaff, I try to make the best
of my new prospects, and study the art necessary to
a future ruer.
s we entered Parament ouse, three terrfc
cheers greeted us. Mother read her speech n a oud,
though tremuous voce, and when she sad, one of
the beoved daughters whom t has peased Provdence
to bestow on us, I thought of you, 0va, and of
poor |ohanna. as the drecton of my thoughts a
presentment a knd of sprt message I suppose
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dentay saved from that raway accdent, and
ut I must reate thngs as they happened, n ther
proper turn.
I, aso, devered a short speech, and enthusastc
appause punctuated every phrase, as wth eyes cast
down and trembng mbs I promsed to do my
utmost for the wefare of the naton, guded by the
e ampe of my roya mother and my father. I heard
the sound of much bowng of noses, and saw
handkerchefs hasty pressed to many a most eye.
eeve me, a the trumph of royaty es n
sentmentaty. . . .
0n the way back to the Paace, the crowd, who
were wd wth the desre to catch a gmpse of us,
had become so dense that the poce tred n van to
curb the smng audacty of tte chdren who threw
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fowers nto our coach unt we were amost bured.
nd the muttude, the |oy and the urrahs
were ndescrbabe. ather was amost knocked off
hs sadde.
e aughed, but suddeny the crowd cosed n a
sense of dscomfort seemed to pervade many of the
faces, a moment before eager and afame, rased
towards ours. The carrage was neary fted off ts
gded whees, and I coud not hear somethng that
mother was sayng to me. ut presenty there came
a sudden u, and I coud hear the ueen repeatng
n awe-strcken tones, Don t ook to your eft.
Turn your head away.
Instnct, not dsobedence, prompted me to do the
contrary, and, on the wooden bacony of a wretchedy
od and runed house, among a group of washer-
women and masons, I saw dstncty, unmstakaby
ke her former sef I saw our sster |ohanna.
tte gr, wth fnger pontng at our gorgeousness,
stood upon the backened edge of the tme-worn
baustrade, whe |ohanna tendery supported her by
twnng both her arms round the fra form.
Don t ook Pease don t ook sad mother
agan, whe I gasped, |ohanna |ohanna and
nstanty reazed, wth unpeasant convcton, that
the coachman, the ackeys, the equerres who rode n
coats of purpe and sver besde the Poya coach,
must aso have seen the Prncess of ngaga, one
of the beoved daughters whom t has peased
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Provdence to bestow upon us, accordng to the
ueen s own e pressve words. The Prncess of
ngaga, mseraby cad, among a group of common
workmen, and unnotced, whe her own sster, the
ugust Mad, refugent wth damonds, payed the
eadng part n the gorous pageant whose spendour
she watched humby and from afar gan the ro
of musketry, the cheers and cannon-roar fed the
ar.
one n the sence and cooness of my room I
thought t over. The heavy mante and sver
brocade dress no onger weghed me down. I ay,
motoness and weary, on the ow couch where so
often we sat, a three, chattng over the boresome
Court dnners, and spendng the evenng n gay tak.
I recaed |ohanna s mrth on such occasons, though
|ohanna was ever demure, and more serous than
you and I, 0va. nd as I remembered, as her
dear face rose before me, the face I had |ust seen (she
s very tte atered), a sharp resouton took hod of
me, the resouton to see our poor outcast sster, to
earn a about her adventures, to hep her, but more
especay to see her. I thrsted for a word from her
ps.
0va, the dffcuty of the enterprse s enormous.
Mother, though moved to the heart by that short
gmpse, has agan tod me that to her |ohanna s as
one ong dead, and that she formay forbds any one
beongng to the Court to enter nto any com-
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muncaton wth cette maheureuse. he uses rench
words when she mentons |ohanna, and I wonder why.
ut cette maheureuse haunts me. he s n Estaa,
here, perhaps not very far from the home of her chd-
hood. he must know I have seen her. 0va, what
am I to do There s no tme to be ost. nswer.
Gve me a hnt, some knd of good advce.
L ELM .
0va to her ster hema, Crown Prncess
0 NI0 GLI .
Dearest hema,
The person who w brng you ths etter s
the one person n the word whom I trust entrey.
Through the hep and knd offces of ths person,
whose name I dare not menton, you sha see
|ohanna, God bess her
0va.
The Prncess hema of ngaga to her
ster, the Empress 0va.
0va, I have seen her, I have actuay spoken to
her, and heard her sad story. Not poverty, not
humaton, but her husband s absence, hs deserton
dstresses our poor sster. hat s ths strength of
ove that outweghs every other . . . Count Guo,
knd feow, arranged the ntervew, and I met
|ohanna by the sma brdge over the stream, not
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far from Dana s tempe. he has ost the habt of
beng prudent n her words and gestures. he taks
n a rather oud, mpatent voce, and despses the
days when she was obged, metaphorcay, to put on
goves. he s a sort of revoutonary, speaks of
crusades aganst monarches, and appears not at a
paned by mother s sent contempt for her. hy
|ohn Grey has gone away from her and ther tte
chd I cannot make out. he speakng to me,
she eaned aganst the parapet of the brdge and
ooked down nto the water wth those dear quet
eyes of hers eyes no onger passoness and cear.
he s totay wthout means, goes out as a dress-
maker, and w not reman ong n Estaa. he
ony came n the hope of fndng some traces of the
fugtve. he says, moreover, that ngona s the
cause of her present msfortune, whch she, |ohanna,
deserves. Ths seems to me somewhat of a rdde.
|ohanna thnks but I cannot wrte to you her
thoughts and feengs they have become so dfferent
from ours, so shockng, yet so human, so strangey
warm and true that one s afrad to et the fame
touch one s heart, f ony for a second. Imagne
that as she watched me, the centre of that brant
cortege the other day, she pted me, she amost cred
for pty he woud not take a farthng from me,
but ony the present I had brought for the chd.
Camy she decared she woud not trespass on my
tme and dutes, and she dd not want me to meet
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her secrety. he took eave affectonatey, but
wthout effuson. There s a wde guf between us.
0va, for the frst tme I share my mother s
convcton. |ohanna, the dear |ohanna of od, s
dead dead the Prncess of ngaga. s a queen,
aas ueen 0rtrude has but two daughters now
as a mother, her heart aone can te.
Count Guo s thn, though st handsome, e
s good and devoted to you. e made us augh, but
never mnd about what and whom e does not
ke the Emperor evdenty, and under the crcum-
stances t s most natura. e even made us weep.
0h, dear sster, how can you endure such martyrdom
martyrdom unrecorded by Dante n hs descrptons
of he, yet perhaps the keenest one can magne.
The terrbe spectre of ear s ever behnd you, or
waks before, pontng wth boody fnger to the deady
and dverse nstruments he weds. In van you fy
the spectre t s ever present wth you. 0h, darng
sha I ever be abe to go to seep wthout pcturng
to mysef that at the same hour whch bds us a to
our quet chambers, you wander aong the corrdors
eadng to your chdren s rooms that you amost fa
on your knees to ackeys and sentnes, n wd
suppcaton : Guard them save them I s Count
Guo descrbed the scene, the tears ran down hs
cheeks and he s a strong man. Mother sobbed
aoud, I had never heard her sob before and poor
papa was a heap of wretchedness behnd hs desk.
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Is there no escape none whatever nd death-
warrants, and scaffods, and gaows, and was n
prson, and prsoners ed n chans through snow and
mre these, these are the thngs you see and hear
as you rse n the mornng, and n the evenng before
you retre The man who wats upon you at dnner
s your foe. e watches for the opportunty to dea
the death-bow. The woman whom you receve
gracousy s a spy. The other day, edor s tte dog
stoe a bt of cheese whch was destned for your boy,
and the dog fe, a wrthng thng, then a corpse. .. .
You see, Count Guo has not spared us detas of
the awfu chronce. s he spoke, hs fne brown
eyes dated wth the force of remnscence and of
ut that word I may not pronounce here. The ueen
kept mutterng to hersef. he mght have been
sayng, 0h, wretched, wretched mother Mserabe
among a women and mothers thou wast happy to
ca thy daughter Empress thou ddst urge her to
enter nto that -assorted unon. I fet that I coud
amost hear her teeth chatterng and see her knees
shakng. Count Guo was ke the messenger of her
conscence as he went on and on, draggng our feengs
aong the red track where your footprnts mnge wth
the dust of those whose shadows foow you and cry,
Vengeance Vengeance Upon thee and upon
thy chdren sha our vengeance fa
0va, how often have I heard Poyaty accused of
ackng herosm, that knd of commonpace herosm
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that causes men to rse from obscurty, and that strs
deas nto fe. 0f course, we never perform acts of
e cessve vaour, nor can we dspay our best quates,
nor offend vce n favour of vrtue. ut are you not
a thousand tmes more heroc than the women famous
for ther courage Is not perseverance and patent
endurance a quaty as hgh as those that are the
gory of by-gone centures Count Guo decares
he cannot eave you amd the pers that surround the
Emperor and yoursef. e w return to your Court
prvatey, and reman there t summer. rte to
me whenever you can do so safey. I send you ths
through a courer.
L ELM .
ngona chute to |ohanna Grey.
Innsbruck.
Dear Prncess,
I had two panfu ntervews yesterday the
frst wth your husband, the second wth mne. Mr.
Grey now repents hs hasty |udgment of your conduct.
You have gven up everythng for hs sake, and he
now sacrfces hs passng fancy to the deep affecton
he bears hs wfe. The ove he once fet for me s no
onger ave. Perhaps he thought dfferenty that day
n your cottage he had not seen me for years, and,
besdes, our feengs are so ntrcate and confused that
we are not aways abe to dsentange the knotty
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Lena Marna to er Ma|esty the ueen
0 NIG GLI .
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Madam,
In deep reverence and affcton I address
these nes to Your Ma|esty. ngona chute, the
gr who was so dear to me, and to whom Your
Ma|esty showed so much kndness, my own, my
beoved ngona has eft me for ever. he s
estranged from her husband by crcumstances whch
I dare not menton to Your Ma|esty. nd there are
others, nvovng a fe secret, that I am forbdden to
reate. ut has not Your Ma|esty guessed the
truth, and wth a mother s nstnct asked, rt thou
not a mother too, and, ke the heaveny Madonna,
doomed to weep over thy chd ngona has
eft me eft me to the emptness of a gorgeous
paace. I am weathy and powerfu st the man
who once oved me now yeds to a my caprces.
e s aso the most meanchoy among mortas, and
the mserabe sadness whch now fs my heart has
ong dwet wth hm.
Pardon me, madam. I know that my duty
dctates that I shoud not make any auson to my
former poston n wrtng to Your Ma|esty. hat I
was before must reman unreveaed to those who have
ooked upon me as a stranger, as one ntroduced to
them for the frst tme, though they had wept over
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Margherta s gref and seen |uetta s sme hover on
my ps. ut ths I must say: I mss my stage-
emotons, the art and subtety whch rescued me
from my own preoccupaton I mss the artfcaty,
the augh as nsncere as the tears, the gamour
shed upon me at my own w. Poya dgnty s
too deary acqured, and can never be ad asde.
nce ngona s departure I have onged for the
nto catng madness nduced by musc. The
Prnce, too, s about to eave rena for many months,
perhaps for many years. e are no onger n-
terested n each other. I am now nothng but an
e -actress to hm an actress wthout rouge. e s
sang to dstant ands, where he s not known. I
sha reman aone. ngona forbds me to |on
her. he has aso dvned the secret whch I kept
so we, and I beeve she oves and at the same tme
despses me. he s ashamed of me, poor darng
chute s a van ove w redeem hm. To wn
one word of approva from ngona he s capabe of
becomng a sant pour de bon. May I humby crave
from Your Ma|esty the one great gft that a breakng
heart can bestow on a heart that s broken Com-
passonate sympathy. ngona s my chd. ured
n a coster th the utmost reverence and
respect, I reman,
Your Ma|esty s devoted servant,
Lna Marna.
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|ohanna Grey to Georgna, Empress of
reneurech.
Paermo.
Dear Georgna,
Your kndness to us s such that I cannot
et more tme pass wthout teng you how happy
and comfortabe we are here. I have had one short,
pognant gmpse of my past, the fe whch has now
vanshed ke a vson. I have seen my sster
hema, taked to her and fet the drear estrange-
ment that must for ever e between us. Is t
possbe we shoud be the same fesh and bood
he moves ke a statue urged to gesture by a
number of sma cords whose ends are hed by the
hands of her dead ancestors, hands dred as those of
the mummes that rest beneath the Pyramds. he
tred to speak fondy and to ook sympathetc.
he even ventured to caress my cheeks wth her
fngers. ehnd her the dark pe of the Paace
rose, and ts we-known shape threw a shadow over
hema s haughty brow. Certany, as she gazed
on me, as she took n my dress and my face, she
must have whspered to hersef, nd s ths my
sster ndeed Can a Poya Prncess have become
so nsgnfcant and strange
Mother has proved worthy of her own staunch
sef not one sgn, not one nqury has she made n
regard to me. Thank eaven, I have now sad adeu
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to ngaga for ever My husband s e tendng hs
teachng argey n cy, and I have found e ceent
empoyment. The chdren go to schoo reguary.
Let me hear from you now and then. You have
made me forget that you are an Empress, that you
beong to the set whch I am so gad to drop.
Te me somethng about 0va. I read n the
papers that her heath s sady affected by the constant
stran. Poor 0va he oved one of our equerres,
Count Guo she oves hm st, and she s marred
to that od bear
ave you ever seen the Emperor edor s
appearance s repusve and grotesque by turns he
s so thck-pped that hs mouth fas over hs vast
chn. e s one of those wtty degenerates whose
vvacty and badness knde crme. I beeve
0va and he have actuay become attached to
each other n the presence of a common per. ut
at the begnnng of ther unon he rdcued her
navete, her cumsy rench, her vrtue and she
feared hs sarcasm. That awfu woman, the
Prncess Padnsky, was the rea ruer of hs heart
and the Empre, and she raed at poor 0va, and
very often the young Empress was kept a prsoner n
her own apartments, ke a punshed schoo-gr.
Good-bye, dear Georgna. e sha aways thnk of
your ovey face and sme the chdren ca you
The ary. hat a pty that you carry that huge
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your sub|ects of the peasure of seeng the beauty of
ther young Empress ut t amuses you to be
eccentrc, and snce you are content, no one has the
rght to |udge you. Good-bye. My husband sends
hs respects. e s a hero
|ohanna.
Georgna, Empress of reneurech, to her
Mother, the Duchess von dngen.
Impera Paace,
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Dearest Mother,
It has proved the greatest troube magn-
abe to get rd of the deputatons that have poured
nto the Paace, t they reached the ae du Trone,
where we hed a tate recepton for the Emperor s
brthday. Ths s the ast tme I sha appear n pubc.
No, do not ook astonshed, do not be angry, or
make an appea n the name of my duty. My mnd
s made up. ut more of ths ater. Thrng
events are camourng to be communcated by a
daughter who st wears her gorgeous ermne, to her
poor mother, on whom she mposes a her confdence.
Yet I wrte to you every two months ony. ut
when I do wrte, my etter s amost as heavy as a
cannon-ba an obus rupp.
urey you must say to yoursef by ths tme,
Georgna s n a very gay mood, uncommony gay.
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Yes, Georgna, Empress of reneurech, and
caed Meanchoa by the ades of her Court, s very
gay ndeed. great number of crcumstances have
contrbuted to make me so. In the frst pace, my
yacht w sa ne t week wth the sad Georgna on
board. econdy, Matt s becomng rather more
ke what he shoud aways have been a charmng
tte Prnce. True, he s naughty, but ony by fts
and starts. Thrdy, the Emperor, my husband, has
eft off annoyng me. nd then and then 0h,
ths s decous, mother rauen Toptz has
eoped Yes, she s the herone she, her fase
curs, her fase teeth, her bg cap, her fftes and her
potato compe on the herone of the ony rea
bona fde eopement that ever envened the Impera
Paace of reneurech. he has estabshed a record.
Matthew amost shed tears of mnged aughter and
horror. It appears that the Irsh ord what knd
of Irshman and what knd of ord must he be
carred her off because rauen Tbptz s frends
L, etc., had shown aggressve ntentons. rauen
Toptz, poor nfatuated creature tod me that L
was actuay |eaous of her success wth the Irsh
ord. he spoke of a whoe cabae threatenng,
whch she was tryng to thwart. Mre chre, darng
mother, ce r est pas tout. Lna Marna, the morganatc
wfe of Cousn |oachm, Lna Marna, my frend, and
I must say the ony cever creature of the whoe
Impera famy, Lna Marna decared to her husband
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en pen dner at a bg dnner wth a hs
equerres present and a few ades and gentemen
besdes, that the charmng ngona chute s her
own daughter, an egtmate chd. nd ngona s
father was nothng more than a torrero, popuar n
pan Not even the ron rod of etquette, nor the
respect due to the soveregn s kth and kn, has been
abe to hush up the scanda.
I don t want you to beeve, dear mother, that I
am the nveterate foe of our race, but when I
remember the severty we show towards the weak-
ness and defects of those beneath us, whe we our-
seves (though behavng |ust as fooshy) demand the
strctest respect, I am re|oced to fnd that sometmes
the resuts of our conduct take arms aganst us, and
wth a vengeance Now, here s |oachm, who
wedded the woman he oved, and, nstead of havng
the courage to renounce hs rghts and pretensons,
aways deprved the poor thng of the prveges of
rank. nother bow to hm s Lna Marna s avowed
ntenton of resumng her stage fe. ortunes have
been offered her by managers snce the rumour got
abroad. mercan papers ssue e tra edtons wth
the startng news: n Emperor s frst cousn
as a prma donna. The wfe of an Impera Prnce
w pay the part of da ne t season at the
Metropotan.
Lna hersef assures me she cannot go on vng as
at present. The demon of art demon or god has
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sezed upon her, and w not reease hs hod.
The Emperor promses anythng she kes to ask,
provded she renounces the stage, but ngona s
departure has unhnged the woman, and I very
beeve she s out of her senses. In the beau meu
of a conversaton she sngs snatches of operas, and
even operettas, and she has that dancng geam n
her eyes whose ntensty has often struck me n
those of our gfted cousn, ng rederc. Unce
Ethebert s maddened by the prospect of hs
daughter-n-aw s adventure, whch he cas crmna.
esdes, many of hs ovey tabatdres and smaer
pctures have mysterousy dsappeared. . . .
I sha soon bd adeu to rena and to Courts,
and saunter from and to and, a azy and dreamy
traveer a symbo of wanderng unrest. I sha be
the errant Empress, the secret vstor to spots
rarey trodden by the feet of mortas, or the pensve
form seated on shores once made gorous by the
presence of heroes and dvntes. . . . way away
from a the greatness, the pomp, the vanty, the
hypocrsy, the undenabe snfuness that urks
beneath dadems and foats ke the msts of ades
around the |eweed gory of sceptres. way, away,
away Love s shaow, and desre and hope.
Naught that s not shaow has come my way,
e cept my own heart, where dwes the ardour of
fute herosm, and cravngs for somethng unknown
and nameess. 0h why am I your daughter, and
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the chd of a neage as fata as fu of gamour
Does not my husband rue the day when he took me
nd w not my son regret that he s my son, and
be, ke me, ed on to a doom dreadfu or mournfuy
spendd
Dream after dream have I had, seepng or wakng.
Do you remember my dream about the rose-encrced
barge, on a ake, whence I was borne away, dead,
wth a hoe above my heart, |ust on the pace where
I wear a red rose to mark the spot, mother, to
mark the spot The assassn s perhaps st an
nfant who w punge the knfe nto my breast, and
thus st n a second the restessness of a sprt so
adventurous that my fervour seems to stretch over
an e panse of numberess ages, and brdge the
Infnte. Perhaps, deep n the earth the ron now
sumbers whch, turned nto stee, w cut the
bondage of my woes and send me to seep. . . . nd
Matt as Matt w de n the boom of youth.
Ths a voce whspers to me whenever I wander
through the vauts where the Emperors of ren-
eurech e n ther heavy sver coffns, so heavy
that even the hands of Death coud not ft them.
gtterng popuaton of coffns greets me, and for
hours I gde between them, touchng ther ponderous
ds wth my fngers. nd the voce says, ere
thy son sha come before thee, boody and mysterous,
and here s thy goa aso, 0 wanderng Empress,
swft-footed and eager to be free. . . .
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h mountans, torrents, oceans, forests wd,
pans unbounded, mtess steppes and savannas
Not before I have tasted the savageness of nature,
the soft repose of natura e hauston not t I have
questoned nature s rocks and ravnes and gorges,
and her rvers and her caves, sha I fnd rest.
orgve me, mother. I am carred away by the
prt of my doom, by the prt of the sombre and
marveous hertage whose terror has ever dwet wth
us, but whose strength I wecome and whose force I
bess. It s not madness, but somethng hgher and
better and worse, that unchans my facutes and
bds me become sent whe I sten to the foods of
harmony that course through my beng. I sha
speak to no one, nor must my voce be heard any
more.
The yacht s caed, or Ever, Never. Do you
reca Edgar Poe Every year the Emperor w
pay me a fyng vst n some pace of rendezvous.
nd every year for a fortnght I sha resume my
pace n the Impera Paace, but as a shadow ony.
I wash my face n the |uce of eary strawberres.
Eterna youth must beong to me. or Ever
Never Do not bame your daughter, mother she
oves you, but oves aso the |oy of freedom. Pro-
metheus unbound must have fet as I fee. ut dd
he not drag the gnawng vutures aong wth hs
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The Duchess von dngen to her on-n-aw,
the Emperor of reneurech.
Dear Matthew,
I have |ust receved from Georgna the
most bzarre, the most bewderng etter that ever
came nto my possesson. Though you have aways
kept me aoof from a that concerns your mtnage,
ths tme I must be an nterferng mother-n-aw.
hat does t a mean, I mpore
The Emperor of reneurech to the Duchess
von dngen.
Dear Mother,
Ths s no case where tragedy s nvoved,
nor have you any cause whatever to fee uneasy.
The cmate here does not sut Georgna. er
dsposton s changed. he s osng her sme, and
the boom from her cheeks. 0ur Court Physcan
prescrbes rest and a sea-voyage.
I shoud ove to accompany my wfe, but tate
affars chan me here, and Matt, who entreats me to
et hm go wth hs mother, must go on wth hs
essons. I am afrad the chd w be oney n ths
bg, du paace. Ths s the ony drawback to
Georgna s desres that I can fnd. ut I have
asked the prncesses of our famy to ca frequenty
on my son, and he sha rde out as much as he
wshes. o there s no rea mpedment to Georgna s
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departure. Do not be dramatc, mother, we are
such terre-d-terre peope. Your cousn rederc coud
not, wth a hs ceverness, draw a drama out of us.
e must reman desperatey commonpace to the
end. Georgna dskes the dea, and amost weeps
when I pont out to her that monarchs are becomng
bourgeos n the true sense of the word. Georgna s
worse than romantc she s one of those women
who have commtted a dreadfu mstake, an anachron-
sm, by comng nto the word two or three centures
too soon or too ate. he shoud have graced the
petty Courts of Itay durng the Penassance. ut
I cannot become a podesta, a over of arts and cruety
and fne anguage, a dettante and a poson-monger,
a hero of condotters and a poet I cannot, at her
bddng, take a eap onwards, or backwards, scourge
my brans out of ther natve duness and abandon
the sow methods necessary to the accompshment
of my duty. Coud reneurech and ts vared
popuaton put up wth a very cever monarch Can
you magne me dong what Georgna urges me to
do, studyng the psychoogy of the dvers natons
commtted to my care, and thus osng my menta
baance, enterng nto the abyrnths of a useess
phosophy, when to sympathze mdy wth my
peope s sorrows s suffcent
Your daughter, madam, coud have wedded a
gant-ker out of a fary-tae, or a troubadour, or
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sense and respectabty, and decares that rt
(whch she spes wth a bg , whe she wrtes
emperor wth a sma e) s compatbe wth nether.
To be an rtst, or not to be nd n order to be
an rtst, bansh vrtue, ca|oe vce. Yet Georgna s
codness to me s due to the fact that she once saw
an actress wearng on the stage a braceet smar to
one she had worn the prevous day. Concuson : I
had been a guty husband nd when I humby
nqured whether those crazy ndvduas whom she
admres, the rtsts and Tyrants and Pevoutonares,
had a been fathfu to ther wves, she answered
wth a foursh, ut they were they, whereas you
are you That s to say, I am nothng but a
modern Emperor
I am devoted to Georgna, but I have not the
strength to keep her by my sde when she wshes to
get away. I am not annoyed at her departure. I
have promsed to make her happy, and must do my
utmost n the endeavour. I ove her st, but she
must reman gnorant of the fact. Ths trat of
prudence I earned n one of the books she urged
me to read. I sha gve you frequent news of the
boy and mysef.
Your devoted son,
Matthew, I. P.
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rauen Toptz to er Poya ghness the
Duchess von dngen.
Madam,
To Your Poya ghness do I appy n my
msery and utter despar. I have now been two days
n Vence, a deserted woman, |ust ke |uet,
Margherta, and every one of them who stened to
the fatterng words of handsome youths. My
husband, who s not my husband, Lord Dashby,
who s not a ord, has run away wth my |ewes, my
money, and my heart. e has run away, eavng
me a weepng wdow, and he aso eft a etter, and
debts even here, where we stayed ony twenty-four
hours together. I am crazy wth despar. My
purse and my usons have both taken fght. . . .
nd the mpudence of the man Can Your Poya
ghness beeve that he, the husband of my choce,
wrote to me n terms that make me thnk he must
have drunk one of those potons that send peope
mad e cas me, rght, od mad, od
sack, and many other wcked names whch I do not
deserve.
In the frst pace, beng hs wfe, I am no onger
an od mad. ut the case s most compcated.
nce he s not Lord Dashby, am I Lady Dashby
st nd what s he nd what am I e
must beong to the arstocracy n some way. s
manners oh, hs manners were perfecty deghtfu.
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e kssed my hand, or kssed hs hand to me, every
two mnutes. I have been cheated, deuded, yet
I am wedded to a nobeman ths I fee. I entreat
Your Poya ghness to bestow some tte sympathy
on my msfortune, and to send me the sum necessary
for the payment of my hote and traveng e penses.
Your Poya ghness has ever proved my best
frend, ne t to God. nd forgve me for speakng
thus. I have aso wrtten to L, who has behaved
we to me of ate and to s Impera ghness
the Prnce Ethebert of reneurech, and to the
Empress. I am wretched, amost dstraught wth
gref.
Your Poya ghness s humbe servant,
Toptz, Lady Dashby ( ).
rauen L to her Mother.
rena.
Dearest Mamachen,
I am eavng wth the Empress, for snce
the departure of rauen Toptz, aas Lady Dashby,
I have obtaned the much-coveted pace of rst
ammer- rauen to er Ma|esty. etter from
Vence, an nfurated etter, tes me that her hus-
band has gone off. o that s a success. e w
set up a sma sausage shop n ern. nd you
cannot accuse me of havng forgotten my famy n
the hgh spheres where I move The cook cas me
Ecceenz, and the Emperor s rst ammer-Dener
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sues for the honour of wnnng my hand and heart.
I sha have a mad to wat on me on board the
yacht, and every comfort you can thnk of.
Doctor chute, that ntrgung od dentst, has
broken hs neck moray speakng. e s dsmssed.
It appears he commtted bgamy on a arge scae
had shut up hs wfe n an asyum, then marred
a young gr who s now a nun at Innsbruck.
Doctor chute s an ntrgung feow, and such
peope are not successfu n the ong run. The
Emperor has dsmssed hm wthout one word of
reproach, or of regret ether, though the Doctor had
ever proved devoted and true to s Ma|esty. The
Empress s gad to be off wth Court affars and on
wth a fe she s arrangng for hersef. 0ur e st-
ence w ack entertanment, as the Empress craves
sotude, waks by moonght, rdes through mountan-
ous countres, and every knd of nonsense over whch
poets and foos rave. The Emperor w fnd rena
queter, f not brghter, when hs wfe has eft. he
has been heapng troube on hs head. er rudeness
and her amabty are as dstractngy une pected
as her other actons. Good-bye, Mamachen. Prase
your daughter
L.
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The Prnce Ethebert of reneurech to
er Ma|esty the Empress.
Dear Georgna,
I do not ke to bother Matthew wth a
matter whch you may n some way make cear to
me. That rogue, the Irsh ord Lord Dashby, as
he caed hmsef has stoen some of my fnest
eghteenth-century tabatUres, one of whch beonged
to Madame du arry, and a sma ename rng of
hstorc vaue, because Madame de Pompadour wore
t on the fra forefnger whose gesture rued rance
for so many years and so gracefuy, I may add.
ths s very awkward and e asperatng for me.
orgve me d avance, far nece, for a the worry I
am gong to nfct on your nnocent esure. ut
I am tod ah, forgve me that the rng, Madame
du Pompadour s prceess rng, adorns the hand of
your danty rst ammer- rauen, L a name
worthy of a soubrette. Pease, pease pardon my
mpertnence, bee Impdratrce, and aow me to
suggest that you woud obge your crazy od unce
mmensey by orderng some sort of nqury to be
made about the rng. coughng and rheumatc
septuagenaran knees before you, and groans under
the oad of hs petty nfrmtes, whch he ays at your
feet, together wth the deep affecton and devoted
respect whch he owes and s ever ready to pay to you.
Your affectonate unce,
Ethebert.
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The Emperor of reneurech to hs Mother-
n-aw, the Duchess von dngen.
Dear Mother,
ave you any, even remote, dea of the
orgn of rauen L, the ammer- rauen who
was to accompany Georgna on her sea-voyage
am e tremey annoyed. |ust as the Empress was
about to eave, she receved a etter from Unce
Ethebert, who had en rtaned an Irshman caed
Lord Dashby, and nvted hm more than once to
hs paace. The rasca e hbted the enthusasm of
a connosseur when my unce dspayed hs famous
tahatdre coecton to hm. In the ght of after
events, Unce Ethebert seems to reca that Lord
Dashby, or whoever he s, dd not utter a syabe
worth recordng, and admred wthout assgnng any
cause for hs admraton. ref, nne of unce s word-
famed tcbatUres have dsappeared, and probaby
found a restng-pace n the pseudo-genteman s wde
pockets. rauen L s dscovered to be hs cousn
and accompce. e has aso deprved poor Toptz
of a her savngs and |ewes, after eopng wth her.
You remember Toptz had competey ost her
senses. L s now n prson. Georgna actuay
cred wth ndgnaton and ve aton when these
thngs were brought to ght. L refuses to name
the pace of her brth and the actua resdence of
her famy. he s, I suppose, ashamed to have
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them know of the affar, but I wsh smpy to avod
scanda and to send the guty demosee back to
her natve hs, or pans.
Unce Ethebert s n an agony of suspense. e
s osng seep, and says that were hs heart to be
opened, the word tabatdres woud be found wrtten
on t. s treasures are, to a appearance, ost.
The thef must be far away by ths tme. Do send
me the address of L s mother, and as qucky as
possbe.
Your dutfu son,
Matthew, I. P.
The Duchess von dngen to the
Emperor Matthew.
Dear Matthew,
I encose the address, and I have wrtten
to L s mother, teng the wretched woman the
whoe truth. You are very knd ndeed to et the
gr get away from rena and to spare her the
chastsement due to her dsgracefu behavour and
her ngrattude. Toptz s here, a shadow of shadows,
thn, hoow-eyed, hoow-cheeked, hoow-voced, but
st romanesque, st n ove, st convnced that
the trator oves her. he compares hm n turn
to aust and to Pomeo. Poor thng she s more
of a frght than ever, and more rdcuous than one
can reasonaby magne n a human beng. he
oathes rena. I sha keep her here t she gets
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over her adventure, though I am afrad she w
contnue to dress hersef and watch for the return
of the eoved. o Georgna s deprved of both
Tbptz and L, and you of Doctor chute I
e pect you must mss hm. ut n Courts gaps
are so easy fed. e must ve up to our prveges,
and be heartess rght and eft. Yet thank you for
your kndness to L.
Your Mother.
hema, Crown Prncess of ngaga, to
her ster, the Empress 0va.
Dearest 0va,
You want to know whether the rumour of
my betrotha s true. Yes, and no. Yes, because t
appears I have to be marred before the end of the
year, and the year s haf way to ts cose. No,
because we have what the rench ca Venbarras
du cho . econd sons and petty prnces throw
themseves at my head, ndvduay and en masse.
ecrety I have made up my mnd n favour of
a very modest, very nsgnfcant young feow, a
thrd son, a erene ghness. e s ta, far,
supercous-ookng, dsdanfu, and must possess
an nsufferabe temper and a dauntess sprt. e
s a horse-whppng man, and I do not ove hm,
but as my husband he woud prove a serous obstace
to monotony. I have seen that n |ohanna s eyes
and manners whch wakes n me a strong desre to
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come nto touch wth reaty. umbugs surround
me. I w have no humbug to humour me and
crouch before me, and ca me The ueen, wth
emphass, even when we are t e-a-tte. |ohanna
sad to me, hy, what can a prncess know of fe,
who has never had to take her raway tcket, and
never had to search for odgngs
Now, the young Prnce I am audng to w
certany be as troubesome as the quest of both
raway tcket and odgngs. omehow he gves me
a pette mort, wth hs meek voce and questons.
Vevet gauntet, stee grp Mother consders hm
the very best and most noffensve person I coud
ht upon, and she s not averse to the match.
Pemember, t s mportant I shoud not take a
brant part. nd the Prnce n queston possesses
no cams to throne, fortune or notorety. e has
cever spnster ssters, and hs mother s a rench
Prncess, a poor wee creature crushed to death
by the number and the unmarrageabeness of her
daughters. oth son and mother are here under
the prete t of seeng the antqutes of the country.
ut the Prnce s as nartstc as can be reasonaby
desred. e pondered over the waste of marbe
then asked why we dd not have Dana s tempe
repared and turned nto a pretty, comfortabe cafe
chantan. e taks fuenty, and wth somethng of
the Parsan dash a thng unusua n prnces. I
suppose he knows argot to the core, and Pars s hs
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dea. e decares that a man who s not aways
short of money s not a man, and I have made hm
understand ceary that he can retan ths proof of
manness even when he becomes my husband, as
mother s stngness grows wth years, though we are
over-weathy. I fee gratefu that he does not try
to pose as a hero. The other sutors pouah they
e pressed ony ther best sentments, of course
brand-new sentments and spoke of tte but
con|uga bss, vrtue, devoton to the naton, etc.
0va dear, I am so dstressed to hear from Count
Guo that your tras are far from beng at an end.
I am so sorry and so unhappy, and mother can
nether eat nor seep nor en|oy anythng snce she
knows how your fe and the ves of your darngs
are menaced by the wcked men who try to k the
Emperor and hs famy. Can t you get the chdren
away, especay tte edor e a |on n ardent
prayers for your safety, 0va dear. If you coud but
return to ths pace, to your own room n the home
you ove, and where you are beoved I am so
peased that Count Guo has returned to your
capta. e wrtes frequenty and mother ooks
forward to hs etters. ow snguar Your fate s
one of terror and uneasness, and I fnd mne too
smooth, and ook forward wth peasure to the worry
my young demon of a husband sha provde for me.
Your affectonate and devoted sster,
L ELM .
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Doctor chute, Country Physcan n esa, to
er Ma|esty ueen 0rtrude of ngaga.
Madam,
rst of a, I beg Your Ma|esty to pardon
my forwardness. I have never wrtten to a queen,
nor seen one, nor am ever key to do so agan. I
am a pan country physcan. I have nothng to do
wth my brother s Court poston, nor hs affars.
ut he has asked me to te you that he humby
requests Your Ma|esty never to waste a thought on
hm, nor to troube yoursef about hs dongs and
whereabouts. e sad farewe to a hs snfu
ambtons. The codness and, I must say, the tact
dsapprova of both the Emperor of reneurech and
Your Ma|esty have fnay taught hm not to put hs
fath n prnces. e peads guty, but fees that hs
gut has not been put nto the baance wth the
servces he had rendered. e now dwes wth hs
wfe Eza n ths sma vage, bowed down by gref,
chastened n sprt, and wth eyes upfted towards
the Eterna Lght, compared wth whch Court
favours and Court vantes are mere w-o -the-wsps.
I am but a poor, pan, stupd country physcan, but
n my opnon eaven has deat most kndy wth
my brother, and shown hm the path of savaton,
away from the roads on whch your gt coaches ro.
e eave you, Madam, to your prde and errors.
chute, |unor.
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|ohanna Grey to rauen Toptz.
Paermo.
y a means, dear Toptz, come. I am |ust n
dre need of a governess for the chdren. ow
dd you get my address nd what a heaveny dea
of yours You te me you have suffered, and that
you cannot put up any onger wth the faseness of
Courts, I was not aware that you had foowed
Georgna to rena. Come. You must not e pect
to fnd any knd of u ury n our sma home, but
comfort and good humour and cheerfu empoyment
w surround you. Pemember, I am not a prncess.
I am |ohanna Grey.
hema, Crown Prncess of ngaga,
to the Empress 0va.
Dearest ster,
hat s ths oppressve sense of danger
that pervades me when I thnk of you I am not,
ke Georgna, gven to day-dreams, nor do nght-
mares torment me, but I woud wager aganst any
odds that your fe has been n per. Do reassure
me by wre as soon as ths etter reaches you. 0f
course you must teegraph cautousy, and f there
s nothng at a the matter, smpy say, I am
deghted. If smpy vague apprehensons dsturb
you, I am peased. nd, n case of emergency,
I re|oce to hear of your betrotha. . . .
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0ur Court, and, n fact, the whoe kngdom, s
topsy-turvy wth the news, and I am about the ony
quet and reasonabe person n the mdst of a the
|oyous fuss. Yet we are the centre and ob|ect of t
a. e the ruthess, bonde, nsgnfcant-ookng
future Prnce Consort and mysef.
future Prnce Consort mne ve up to
the dea I have created for hm I know I coud
not be happy n the quet, humdrum manner whch
makes father and mother a we-assorted coupe, nor
n the admrabe way of ueen Vctora, who had
deas of her own and such a smpe, strong-mnded
fashon of puttng them nto practce. I fee sure
the sy youth w -treat me, and never condescend
to show me any partcuar courtesy n pubc.
Yesterday mornng I dspayed a new gown before
hm, a garng yeow brocade, and asked hs opnon
of the matera and especay the coour.
Too showy at a dstance, and too fade when one
ooks cosey at t.
nd when I e postuated, and sad ertrand
dear, what you have sad s most contradctory and
ncomprehensbe, he took hs rght hee n hs eft
hand, and eant back n hs char t I saw the soes
of hs feet, and answered angudy, re you sure,
hema, that I am not contradctory and n-
comprehensbe for the soe peasure of beng so
nd he whsted my astonshment away, and n the
same azy, drawng tones, ordered me off to the
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pano, whe hs ever-apprehensve and trembng
mother stepped between us wth a gance of terror.
he s afrad the whoe affar may be broken off by
her son s quet mpudence, and she aways carres an
ove-branch n her trembng hands. I pty her.
The panorama of her host of unmarrageabe and, I
am afrad, unmanageabe daughters often rses before
her eyes. he carres a mnature edton of Gotha s
ustrous amanack n her pocket, and the pages
contanng the age, name and ttes of egbe prnces
are worn wth use. he smes as she reads the
famar nes, and cas them endearngy, Ethe,
Eddy, arry, |ohnny, as f they were aready
chershed sons-n-aw.
ertrand sneers at hs mother s hopes and
deusons he has |eered my damonds to peces, and
pokes fun at my dgnfed ars as I pay my part of
Prncess Poya. e woud sneer the dev back to
he. I suppose he s ost n wonder as to the cause
of hs success wth me. Nor does he make any
endeavour to e hbt fne feengs and unusua knd-
ness n the presence of our father and the ueen. nd
yet mother s rather wrapped n admraton of hs
easy, ndoent answers, and abours under the
deuson that he s as md as a cat. he does
not see the tger behnd the cat the tame, smooth,
gracefu tger
Do I ove hm Yes, f to be nterested n a man
to the e cuson of every other beng means ove. I
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watch hm untrngy. e cas the Court ades
your puppets, and me, the puppy. o there s a
constant confuson between puppets and puppy
whch sends the gh Chamberan nto fts of sent
rage. The gh Chamberan oathes ertrand, who,
the other evenng, asked, pontng to the huge sver
key the man s so proud to wear across hs back,
Dear sr, you are not prudent. You overrate your
strength. Ths proogue made the gh Chamber-
an grn wth open satsfacton, as, though he has
earnt to fear ertrand s sarcasm, he e pected at
east one compment regardng hs fdety and
wsdom durng the thrty years he has spent at
our Court. That key must have sunk nto your
fesh by ths tme, dear sr, contnued the Prnce,
wth one of hs west and most chd-ke smes.
I fee sure we shoud fnd e acty ts sze and
shape marked on your back, f we coud see you
naked.
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The word naked s never pronounced n the
presence of Poyaty, and the was themseves seemed
to coour wth shame and conscousness, whe the
wretched offca, conscence-strcken at beng the
nnocent cause of such a scanda, bowed hs
humated head. ertrand trfed wth hs betrotha
rng, and sauntered away.
chd, a mere chd, murmured the ueen,
an ous to obterate the bad mpresson created by
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ertrand s wttcsm. e s as gueess, as frank
as a chd.
Indeed, I never met wth such frankness before,
sad father, n quck approva of the ueen s
nterpretaton of the scene. uch frankness
The puppets echoed the word, t t rang a round
the chamber.
ertrand sad, 0h, Puppy, sten to those puppets
ut they are tresome. |ust stck your fngers, your
nce tte fngers nto my ears, that I may hear no
more of ths, whch s surpassngy stupd. nd he
took my hands n hs frm grasp.
ertrand, for shame Peope are ookng ths
way. ut the frank chd had hs way, and I
unwngy obeyed.
Ths s how t s wth me, dear 0va, and I am
eated. omethng has come nto my fe at ast
at ast The drearness, the monotony, the dsgust
are removed by those strong yet frage-ookng
hands. nd I suspect that, for the frst tme snce
her spng days, mother has found one to whose w
she must yed and she w do so unwttngy, ed
on by what seems caprce as ght, as fuffy as the
curs of ertrand s strangey far har. e w turn
Dana s .tempe nto a caf chantant, a Parsenne,
and your sster, the Crown Prncess of ngaga,
nto a foosh save. appy, or not That s the
queston.
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Lna Marna (Impera 0pera, rena) to er
Ma|esty the ueen of ngaga.
Madam,
Your Ma|esty w be astonshed to fnd I
have summoned the courage to wrte agan to Your
Ma|esty. ut the wsh of the dyng s sacred. I
have |ust returned from Innsbruck, where my beoved
chd, ngona, s now ad n her tomb. ngona,
my daughter, s gone for ever. The wd sprt
of unrest s pacfed, the gente sou has taken
wngs, and ooks down upon us from the reams of
ght.
or many a nght have I watched over the derum
of my darng, and when the dreadfu sentence fe
from her ps: Too ate as I tod her, ngona,
I am your mother. Pardon me, and aow me to
spend the remander of my fe by your sde
when I noted that her eyes gazed upwards and that
her hands beckoned to unseen forms, I fe prostrate
upon her bed, t her gente caresses recaed me to
my senses. Then she sad
I knew t a ong before the others. I have
forgven. Mother, I am your daughter take me to
your heart whe mne st beats. In a few hours
the weary heart w be quet, as a brd aseep.
0h, too much has ths heart yearned after nac-
cessbe thngs: after ove after truth and peace.
nd Love and Truth and Peace do not tread the
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paths of earth. Mother, I want you to te my
husband to te Doctor chute and Eza that I
sha ever watch over them, and that I e pect them
to pray for me. nd wrte to ueen 0rtrude et
her know I bear a gratefu memory of the days spent
n her house, and te her that nothng good, no
happy hour w come to her t she has caed
|ohanna and |ohn Grey back to ther home. It s
ther home.
s she devered these broken sentences, she fe
back on her pow. Lke gente shadows, young
nuns and od gded nto the room, and to them she
sad, Do you remember the ast song I sang one
of Paestrna s gorous numbers and how my voce
poured out foods of harmony 0h, my ovey voce,
hushed for ever and she wept
Then a sme umned her features, and she sad,
Mother Mother 0h the sweet utterance of that
word how t swes on my ps and warms my bood
Mother, come near oh, come nearer. It s gettng
so dark. Te ueen 0rtrude te her |ohanna.
. . . |ohn . . . poor |ohn ... he meant we by
me . . . and so dd my husband, the Doctor. Poor
|ohn Te the ueen and her hand grew
cod between my burnng hands, and her paor
ncreased. . . .
nd now I am a bereaved woman. I weep, and
must n my turn vansh from the word. I have
devered the message of the dead. May Your
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Ma|esty understand ts rea meanng and portent,
and be mercfu, even as God msef.
Lna Marna.
hema, Crown Prncess of ngaga, to
her ster, |ohanna Grey.
Estaa.
|ohanna dear Though you have been cod and
even unknd to me snce our ast ntervew, and
not answered any of my etters, aow me to ntrude
agan upon you. I am fuy aware that we mght
prove wearsome to you, and that you have earnt to
do wthout us n a these years yet I fee sure your
heart w be touched when you hear that mother s
heath s sady fang, father very depressed, and
0va wretched and worn out wth emotons and
terror. Mother wshes to make the acquantance of
your tte boy and gr, her grandchdren. he has
had a strange dream. he saw poor ngona s
etherea form rse between the coumns of Dana s
tempe, and beckon to her and as mother tred to
|on the apparton, she heard ngona say ds-
tncty, Do not approach me, or I must go. I have
a message for you from the upreme Power a
message whch I brng to you n haste. Ca |ohanna
and |ohn and ther chdren back to Estaa. Ca
them qucky. Per and death are nvoved n the
case of your dsobedence, to the heaveny command.
0 |ohanna, reent, forgve. I am sure 0va s n
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sore danger. e may at any moment hear of some
dreadfu mshap or catastrophe, and mother seems
to thnk that f you were to drop a ne of acknow-
edgment and promse to come, our sster may
escape. 0n my knees I beg you to reent and to
promse that you w come.
I am your ovng sster,
L ELM .
|ohanna Grey to the Crown Prncess of
NIG GLI .
Paermo.
Dear hema,
The danger and the terrbe state of mnd
whch you descrbe to be our mother s have vanqushed
my resentment. e sha sa ne t week. nd I
am happy to forgve and be forgven. That ange, our
dear departed ngona, has destroyed famy feuds
and hatred by the power of her pure sprt. To me
aso she speaks through my dreams, and whspers,
|ohanna, you must return to Estaa. o good-bye,
dear hema. I have wrtten to 0va. as
she s to be pted. . . .
ere I dropped my pen, nor can I resume my
etter wthout an effort. |ohn has |ust returned
from a wak, and bought a newspaper on hs way.
e notced a crowd gatherng around the newspaper-
boys. 0 hema In bg back etters the news
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s gven : The Emperor edor shot. The Empress
0va and her chdren murdered. . . .
I am obged to contnue, as my wfe s n such
deep dstress that she cannot go on. There s a
second paper that says, Mracuous escape. The
Emperor and Empress and ther chdren saved.
oud to God ths may prove true I have cabed
to a my frends and to the Emperor of reneurech
n |ohanna s name. e are terror-strcken, dumb
wth gref and suspense and hope.
|ohn Grey.
The Emperor of reneurech to Mrs. |ohanna
Grey. (Cabegram.)
oth the Emperor and the Empress are safe, as
we as ther chdren. Matthew, I. P.
The Empress 0va to her Mother, the ueen of
ngaga. (0n board the Impera yacht, unbeam.)
(Cabegram.)
e a |on n sendng our dear mother our best
greetngs. Letter foows. edor, I., 0va, edor,
Poberta.
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The Empress 0va to her Mother, the ueen
of ngaga. (0n board the Impera yacht,
unheam.)
Mother, Mother. . . . e are safe. nd yet ths
seems scarcey possbe. s my hands wander from
edor s brow to Poberta s far har, I cry out n re-
trospectve horror, and e cam, Ts mpossbe
They must be dead. I am dreamng. I have
heard the death-sentence hssed nto my ears, and
seen the gtter of swords and fet the breath of the
assassn fan my cheek. e are ave. . . .
Mother, my har has turned grey, and my ps
have forgotten how to sme. 0 mother, mother
ow sha I reate the scene, how go over the awfu
nghtmare In a few words, though my breath s
short and my body so weak that I am obged, every
tte whe, to stop wrtng and e down for a few
seconds, I must try to gve you an dea of the un-
magnabe drama.
e had retred, the Emperor and mysef, and, as
usua, had gone to seep a few mnutes after md-
nght. s usua, I had pad my nghty vst to the
chdren s room, entreated the sentnes and servants
to watch we over ther safety, and a sense of
securty had crept nto my heart, of unusua
securty, because the menacng etters had become
more rare of ate.
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I awoke and stared round, and sat up n my bed,
and watched the Emperor s peacefu sumber. s
hand, hs rght one, ay across the pow, and n the
haf ght I gazed ong and ntenty on the broad
pam, the bony fngers, whose grasp hed the fe and
death of thousands and I shuddered to thnk how
many human bengs had been sent to the darkness
of prsons and the tomb by one gesture of that now
peacefu hand. he I was thus refectng, wth-
out rasng my eyes, I had the sudden sensaton that
there was some one ese besdes mysef who gazed
ntenty upon the mghty hand of the ruer. I fted
my head, and saw the tapestry n front move, and the
door of the room open steathy. Then sence and
quet enveoped the whoe chamber, t I thought
I had been dreamng, or that my magnaton had
deceved me. ut no there came the sound of
cautous feet gdng aong the carpeted boudor.
thout osng a second, I awoke the Emperor, and
whspered, Pse, edor There are men n the
boudor they were here two mnutes ago.
ere In the boudor he repeated. Then
we are ost.
Pse, rse, edor e must fy.
here to sad he. The bedroom has no
e t e cept to the sma coset where your dresses
hang.
There, behnd my dresses, we must hde.
My sword, sad the Emperor.
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306 P0Y L L0VEP
Never mnd your sword.
e rushed out of our beds. th one agonzed
ook I turned towards the corrdor where the chdren s
apartments are. ut I knew the murderers woud
begn by kng us. nd the Emperor dragged me
away, and we stoe under the mmense pe of cothes,
my ba-dresses, my ermne-ned mantes.
th a rush the monsters entered the bedroom
the ghts were e tngushed and ther naked swords
went savagey to work among the bed-cothes and
pows, whe |oyfu mprecatons accompaned each
bow.
match a cande cred one of them, whom I
recognzed to be a very young equerry whose mother
ved n the Paace far charU. match e
must see our work.
Then to the chdren s room, sad another, and
but for the Emperor s hand on my mouth I shoud
have screamed n my agony. cande nd
when the cande came, they saw the bed empty.
Curses of dsappontment foowed, and they returned
to the boudor n mad search, swearng they woud
a bow ther brans out f they dd not succeed n
fndng us. e were more dead than ave, maddened
yet strangey quck of percepton, and so marve-
ousy tranqu that ony the chatterng of our teeth
coud have betrayed our hdng-pace. The assassns
returned and prepared to enter the coset.
Then a mracuous, unhoped-for thng happened.
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0Y L L0VEP 307
man sprang forward, from under the same heap of
cothes that protected us, and wth sword upfted
opened the wndow, screamng to the sodery beow,
The Emperor s n per I recognzed Guo s
voce. tumut of feengs made me drop the
Emperor s hand, and as the shouts of the nfurated
troops arose, as the scuffng sound of strugges and
fang bodes ensued, I swooned away. . . .
Mother, you know the rest. e are now vng
for a fortnght on board our yacht. I spend most of
my tme n prayer and n watchng our darngs.
I am so weary, mother. . . . Two Empresses at sea
Georgna and 0va the one far, good and pure,
but bzarre and a martyr to the sprt of her race
the second, 0va, a poor, unambtous woman who
woud have thrven and fet happy as a bourgeose.
nd yet, I wonder, woud ether Georgna or 0va
gve up the crown of thorns, and drop the sceptre to
whose weak stem the sponge of ga and vnegar s
attached e are at once above and beneath the
common herd ... a superor and nferor race, and
we must pay the prce.
0va.
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Pchard Cay and ons, Lmted,
bread street h, e.c., and
bunoay, suffok.
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EDEN P ILLP0TT
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one that w rank wth hs best. . . omethng of knshp wth.
ng Lear and Pere Gorot. Chcago Pecord erad.
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It s no dry bones of a chronce, but touched by genus to fe
and vvdness. Lousve, entucky, Post.
cose, thoughtfu study of unversa human nature.
The 0utook.
0ne of the best of ths author s many works. The ookman.
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T E C0MPLETE 0P
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ILLI M |. L0C E
Lfe s a gorous thng. . |. Locke
If you wsh to be fted out of the petty cares of to-day, read one
of Locke s noves. You may seect any from the foowng ttes
and be certan of meetng some new and deghtfu frends. s
characters are worth knowng. atmore un.
The Moras of Marcus 0rdeyne The Demagogue and Lady Phayre
t the Gate of amara The eoved Vagabond
tudy n hadows The hte Dove
mon the |ester The Usurper
here Love It eptmus
Derects Idos
12mo. Coth. 1.50 each
Tweve voumes bound n green coth. Unform edton n bo .
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It s a nove fu of wt and acton and fe. The characters are a
out-of-the-ordnary and spenddy depcted and the end s an
artstc trumph a fttng cma for a story that s fu of charm
and surprse. mercan Magazne.
The eoved Vagabond
The eoved Vagabond s a genty-wrtten, fascnatng tae.
Make hs acquantance some dreary, ran-soaked evenng and fnd
the vagabond nerve-thrng n your own heart.
Chcago Pecord- erad.
eptmus (Iustrated by |ames Montgomery agg)
eptmus s the |oy of the year. mercan Magazne.
The Moras of Marcus 0rdeyne
0ne of those rare and much-to-be-desred stores whch keep one
dvded between an nterested mpatence to get on and an rress-
tbe temptaton to nger for fu en|oyment by the way. Lfe.
here Love Is
0ne of those unusua noves of whch the end s as good as the
begnnng. New York Gobe.
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ILLI M |. L0C E
The Usurper
Contans the ha-mark of genus tsef. The pot s mastery n
concepton, the descrptons are a vvd fashes from a brant
pen. It s mpossbe to read and not marve at the sked work-
manshp and the constant dramatc ntensty of the ncdent, stu-
atons and cma . The oston erad.
Derects
Mr. Locke tes hs story n a very true, a very movng, and a
very nobe book. If any one can read the ast chapter wth dry
eyes we sha be surprsed. Derects s an mpressve, an m-
portant book. Yvonne s a creaton that any artst mght be proud
of. The Day Chronce.
Idos
0ne of the very few dstngushed noves of ths present book
season. The Day Ma.
branty wrtten and emnenty readabe book.
The London Day Teegraph.
tudy n hadows
Mr. Locke has acheved a dstnct success n ths nove. e ha
struck many emotona chords, and struck them a wth a frm,
sure hand. In the reatons between atherne and Pane he had
a decate probem to hande, and he has handed t decatey.
The Day Chronce.
The hte Dove
It s an nterestng story. The characters are strongy conceved
and vvdy presented, and the dramatc moments are powerfuy
reazed. The Mornng Post.
The Demagogue and Lady Phayre
Thnk of Locke s cever books. Then thnk of a book as dffer-
ent from any of these as one can we magne that w be Mr.
Locke s new book. New York ord.
t the Gate of amara
am |. Locke s noves are nothng f not unusua. They are
marked by a quant orgnaty. The habtua nove reader nev-
taby s gratefu for a refreshng sense of escapng the common-
pace path of concuson. Chcago Pecord- erad.
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ntoe rance s a wrter whose personaty s very strongy re-
fected n hs works. . . . To reproduce hs evanescent grace
and charm s not to be ghty acheved, but the transators have
done ther work wth care, dstncton, and a very happy sense of
the vaue of words. Day Graphc.
e must now a read a of natoe rance. The offer s too
good to be shrked. e s |ust natoe rance, the greatest
vng wrter of rench. Day Chronce.
Compete Lmted Edton n Engsh
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C PT IN DE M0ND
Y
M UD DIVEP
uthor of the Trogy of East Indan Lfe, Three Noves of
ngo-Indan rmy Lfe, as foows:
C PT IN DE M0ND
T E GPE T MULET
C NDLE IN T E IND
Coth, tmo. r.|0 each
London Mornng Post: Vgor of characterzaton accom-
paned by an admrabe terseness and smpcty of e pres-
son. ... brant and convncng study of an
undyng probem. Its bracng atmosphere of santy and
drectness makes one better for readng t.
PaUMa Gazette: very sound pece of work, whch
ntroduces us to a wrter of abty, nsght and observaton.
The ookman: Mrs. Dver not ony takes the reader
nsde rea ngo-Indan fe as t s ved by peope who
have more to do than pay tenns wth the ten command-
ments, but nvests the compcatons of marrage wth pro-
found nterest. Ths fnest of a fne arts, the art of vng
together, s the theme of her story, and we coud not wsh a
heather or more orgna study of the probem. It s a
genune peasure to come across a story of such abty and
vtaty.
The thencPum: Mrs. Dver e ces n representng the
better sde of ngo-Indan fe, n brngng vvdy before
us ts strenuousness, sef-sacrfce and oyaty. . . uch
wde ssues as ronter warfare, choera camps and ma-
ayan e poraton pay a arge part n the acton, and are
handed wth sympathy and power.
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T E GPE T MULET
y M UD DIVEP
Coth, anto. .|0
The Tmes: Mrs. Dver has had opportuntes for studyng the
strong, sent man of acton at cose quarters, and has a an artst s
admraton for the type. er hero s ave, ndvdua, nterestng.
The scene s once more the Pun|ab and the ronter, and some of the
characters n Mrs. Dver s prevous nove, Capt. Desmond, V.C., ap-
pear agan. ... powerfu, nterestng book, whch strkes the
reader as sncere and actua.
The 0utook: very fne and vta pece of work. Mrs. Dver
knows her Indan fe to the heart, and has a rare gft of conveyng a
sense of t to the reader, ake n ts everyday dutes and ts moments
of e ated herosm. pecay noteworthy s her deang wth the oya,
nartcuate comradeshp of men her book s a book of frendshp.
fter so many cynca studes of ngo-Indan fe, t s no sma pea-
sure to come on so gaant and true-hearted a story, one whch depcts
the nober sde of men and women dong Engand s work on the bor-
ders of her Empre.
Pa Ma Gazette: n ngo-Indan study whch not ony gves
no pace to socety scanda, but aso presents, unostentatousy, the
most nsprng aspect of Empre-budng. In her many-sded descrp-
tons of the natura beautes of Inda, and n her presentaton of Indan
fronter fe Mrs. Dver has few equas among contemporary wrters.
ut the centra mert of The Great muet es n skfu characterza-
ton. uta Maurce, a remarkabe and compe personaty, s abso-
utey true to fe the vrtues and fangs of her rare knd present a
portrat unerrng n every respect. Leno , aso an unusua ndvdua,
appro mates cosey to one man s pcture of another. ardy one
touch suggests the woman s hand.
The rgonaut ( an rancsco): The Great muet s a notabe
nove. 0ne of the very few that eave a deep mpresson on the
mnd. . . The author never wrtes anythng that s du or super-
fuous. he s aways enthusastc, and can aways hod the attenton
from begnnng to end.
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M. P. ILLC0C
The ay Up coth. 2mo. 1.50
Ths nove s one that touches three burnng questons of the hour
capta and abor, the cams of the ndvdua aganst those of the
tate, the rght of a woman to her own ndvduaty. esdes
beng a pcture of a group of modem men and women, t s aso a
study of certan soca tendences of to-day and possby to-morrow.
The ngess Vctory coth. 2mo. 1.50
movng drama of passon, of fraty, of ong temptaton and of
utmate trumph over t. Pa Ma Gazette.
most remarkabe nove whch paces the author n the frst
rank. Ths s a nove but to ast. 0utook.
book worth keepng on the sheves, even by the casscs, for t
s panted n coors whch do not fade. Tmes.
resh and fervent, nstnct wth genune passon and emoton and
a the ferce prmtve |oys of e stence. It s an e ceent thng
for any reader to come across ths book. tandard.
spendd book. Trbune.
Man of Genus 0rnamenta Coth. 12mo. 1.50
ar above the genera eve of contemporary fcton. . .
work of unusua power. Professor am Lyon Pheps.
ddcombe: Pomance of the Devonshre Moors
12mo. 1.50
MP . |0 N L NE
ccordng to Mara coth. 12ma. 1.50
Mrs. Lane s touch s ght, yet not fppant. he s shrewd and
humorous, and a mrace of tactfu good temper but she hts hard
and straght at many reay vta soca weaknesses. uture soca
hstorans w fnd here ampe matera. Present-day soca de-
nquents and soca crtcs ake may read wth peasure and proft.
London Mornng Leader.
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Mrs. |ohn Lane havng been brought up n ths country, and hav-
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mercan, and mercan socety as a Londoner. The resut s ths
very entertanng book. Neu York Evenng un.
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D0L YLL PDE
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The pot has a resembance to that of ke Cons The New
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sub|ect matter s ke The epmate. prngfed Pepubcan.
s Ye ave own
brant story deang wth the word of fashon.
Captan myas
Mastery. an rancsco E amner.
tartngy pan spoken. Lousve Courer-|ourna.
The Pat Trap
The terary sensaton of the year. Phadepha Item.
The tory of Eden
od and outspoken, a startng book. Chcago Pecord- erad.
rea feeng of brant sunshne and e haratng ar.
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The Pathway of the Poneer.
The story of seven grs wno have banded themseves together
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They represent, coectvey, the professons open to women of no
deberate tranng, though we educated. They are ntroduced to
the reader at one of ther weeky gatherngs and then the author
proceeds to depct the home and busness fe of each one ndvd-
uay.
EMEPY P0TTLE
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VEPN0N LEE
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C PLE M PPI0TT
The Intrudng nge coth. 2mo. 1.50.
The story of a mstaken marrage, and the fna souton of the
probem for the happness of a partes concerned.
hen a oman oos coth. 2mo. 1.50.
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an attempt to defne what a rea marrage s, and t shows very
decdedy what t s not. u of the matera of fe.
New York Tmes ook Pevew.
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P0EM 0PT VING
tephen Phps
New Poems, ncudng Ioe : Tragedy n 0ne ct Launceot
and Gunevere, Endymon, and many other htherto unpub-
shed poems.
Coth, zmo 1.25 net af m orocco, 4.00 net Postage 10 cents
I have read the New Poems of tephen Phps wth the great-
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ever pubshed. m. Lyon Pheps of Yae Unversty.
Unform ets. 4 voumes, ncudng New Poems, Poems, Paoo
ND P NCE C , EP0D.
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Compete orks. Unform Edton 3 voumes. 2mo. ound
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Inda s Love Lyrcs, ncudng The Garden of ama.
tars of the Desert
Last Poems. Transatons from the ook of Indan Love.
Coth, 4.30 net Postage 33 cents af morocco, 12.00
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meanchoy of ove and passon, Laurence ope surpasses wn-
burne n ntensty of feeng and beauty of thought.
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ork whch w ve, one may venture to say, as ong as the
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