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He tumbled back; the crowd received him priests, choristers, peasants, knights, all huddled together, baying like dogs. Count Richard strode down the steps. 'Alavi! Alavia! sang Gaston, 'this is a swift marriage! Richard, cooler than circumstances warranted, set Jehane on his saddle, vaulted up behind her, and as his pursuers were tumbling down the steps, cantered over the flags into the street.
How charming!" She shifted in her chair to face Cecelia Brooke. "I wish to know her instantly!" Velasco was waiting only for that opening. "Dear princess," he said, instantly, "permit me to present Miss Cecelia Brooke ... Princess de Alavia...." Completely at ease and by every indication enjoying herself hugely, the girl bowed and took the hand the Weringrode thrust upon her.
A signal possibly indicating that Ekstrom had arrived They met at last, those two, and discreetly confabulated, the maitre d'hotel betraying welcome mitigation of that nervous tension which had heretofore so palpably affected him; and, as the other stepped back into the elevator, Lanyard saw this one's glance irresistibly attracted to the table dedicated to the service of the Princess de Alavia.
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