Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 65: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER, 57 CHAPTER VII. HEILIGENTHAL’S VISIT. We have said that the young Countess Walpurga de Heiligenthal was the friend, the companion of the Princesses of Thessaly; she had been presented the evening before to the Ambassadress of Caucasus. This young girl, together with the daughter of the orand mistress of ceremonies of the Thessalian Court, the worthy Countess le Langweilig, shared the duties of ladies of honor to the royal prin- cesses. Walpurga was the favorite. Pretty, ob- stinate, amusing, she diverted the princesses by her witty and mischievous sallies; while the old maids of the grand mistress of ceremonies, (alas they had both been on the old maid’s list for a long time!) had, thanks to the education given by theirmamma become such extinguishers that Walpurga, in her mocking nature, said that she was astonished to see that the lamps and candles remained lighted when these two auto- matons appeared, very proper, moreover, but who were incapable of stirring only when set in motion by the maternal strings. Ah, one could not jest with Madame de Lang weilig, whose first principle was that, in order to be worthy of appearing at court, one could not be silent enough, nor immovable enough. Walpurga, she dared everything, said everything; and that, although her heart was often very sad, for she did not advance in her love affairs. The young princesses had often spoken to their father of the ennoblement of Haller, making him Gomicbooks. co