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"You should have taken the south pass It was lovely yesterday"

"Perhaps this way has been wisest"

"Are you becohness" If he had looked at her instead of his horse's ears, and sretted the question "I ahness is the uilty of lese-majesty"

"I shall not lock you up," she said, and added under her breath, "as ood father would like to! Besides," she continued aloud, "I rather like to set the court by the ears Whoever heard of a serene highness doing the things I do? I suppose it is because I have known years of freedoht, of speech These habits can not change at once In fact, I do not believe they ever will But the duke, ood; he understands and trustsa leaendheit?"

"Is it true that you have not heard yet? I have declined the honor"

"Your highness?"

"My serene highness," with a smile "This, of course, is as yet a state secret; andyou is not a princess', but a woman's Solve it if you can"

Carmichael fu man"

"What has that to do with it? The interest he takes in his kingdoative I have learned that he has been to his capital but twice since he was fifteen He is even now absent on a hunting trip in Bavaria, and his coronation but a few days off There will be only one king in Jugendheit, and that will be the prince regent"

"He has done tolerably well up to the present," observed Carendheit is prosperous; it has a splendid ared, patient, frugal and sensible"

"There is an instance where he made a cruel blunder"

"Nowhat this blunder was

"I suppose not Look! The artillery is firing"

Boom-boom! They saw the smoke leap from the muzzles of the cannon, and it seemed minutes before the sound reached them

"I have a fine country, too," she said, with pride; "prosperous, and an ar cohness"

"I know that,froent is a better man than our Herbeck"