Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 212: what you’re looking at

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204 HER ROYAL LOVER. CHAPTER XXVIII. REGRETS. Ten months after these events, that is to say the twenty-second of June, the day fixed for the celebra- tion of the marriage of the Princess Agusta to Prince George of Pattenpouff had arrived. The ceremony was to take place with great pomp in the chapel of the chateau. In order to mark its so- lemnity, not only the Empress of Hindostan, the august grandmother of the Princesses of Thessaly, with her inseparable daughter, the Princess Cory- sande was to assist at it; but also the Prince of Delhi, the hereditary prince of the crown of Hindos- tan, had promised to come accompanied by his wife and daughters. The Prince and Princess Imperial of Babylon and their children were to be present, as well as a great number of other personages of im- perial or royal blood. Last, but not least, the Duke of Africa, was also observed there, since he was a marriageable hereditary prince, the eldest son of one of those petty opera-comique kings which arise in the Kast, become the hot-house which incubates quantities of those crowned heads destined by the surge of revolution and of war to livea day; as quickly carried away as the froth of circumstances has produced them, now become useless pebbles, following the pleasure and interest of great powers, so many spokes set in the political wheels of Europe, that they often derange. ) All the women and the young girls of the city had Gomicbooks.com