Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 253: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 245 them disappear in a deep pocket made expressly for this purpose. There also was the excellent chamberlain, Pul- nitz, a good fellow if there ever was one, that they hastened to injure as soon as they had made use of him, and who nevertheless remained content with himself and everybody. Kivery one was going, coming, talking, laughing, exhilarated by the gayety of a sumptuous repast and the profusion of the offered refreshments. The crown-head who came from the East, very much excited by the champagne and the old Bur- gundy, emulated the lowset officer in gallantry. <At this moment he was jesting smartly enough with a lively Parisian, very sprightly, ma for / and who from time to time jumped with both feet upon the marriage contract, going from right to left likea squirrel, according to her caprices. Her husband, according as his wife stood at court (ought we not to say in the court-yard?) was at one time or another either minister or ambassador; these digni- taries sufficed his ambition and his happiness. Then, our old friend, the ambassadress of one of the great kingdoms of the South, Madame de AI- hambra. Let us not forget this one! she is visible from afar; her gown, of a very brilliant red, glares in a fashion but little in harmony with the subdued and quiet colors of her neighbors; they maliciously accused her in society of preferring gaudy colors, ‘ because she was deaf. In an embrasure of a window, Baron Kochnitz, the famous financier, was standing. He had built for' — himself a magnificent chateau whose roof was en- -tirely of gold (?) But, the veritable covering of this modern -feudal monument, the malicious. tongues, Eomichbooks.com