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Built by the Archduke Charles of Alberia for his morganatic wife, Henriette Duboc, and pulled down since for the erection of a convent, it is never mentioned in history, and it has been long forgotten by the few inhabitants of the neighbourhood.
At that time Walter, Count of Brienne, in Champagne, was waging active war against the emperor, in the kingdom of Naples, on the subject of the claims of his wife Alberia, the eldest daughter of Tancred, King of Cicily, who had been some years dead. Francis resolved to offer him his services, in the hope of gaining military honors.
They went through several doors and up several small staircases till they reached a small apartment furnished in old blue damask, heavily fringed with tarnished gold and silver decorations. "A few souvenirs of my hereditary castle in Alberia," explained the Prince; "they relieve my sense of exile." He walked across the floor and tapped on what appeared to be a portion of the wall.
She has to defend her character. Orange must clear his reputation." Disraeli had formed the opinion that Alberia as represented by His Excellency was by no means anxious to see Mrs. Parflete's innocence established; that, in fact, the whole disaster had been planned and executed in the sole design of compromising her status.
He has consulted several Bishops, the Lord Chief Justice, all the ambassadors, and most of the intelligent Peers. He wanders from one confessional to another: St. Philip, St. Teresa, St. Benedict, and St. Dominic are invoked perpetually for the disarmament of his scruples. Vanity blinds him to the danger of assassination. Alberia is in a red mood. Carissime, the dark, inevitable hour will come.
Affairs in Alberia cannot long remain in this violent state. There must be a dénouement." I answered him sharply. "You know quite well that the Archduchess can never hope for official recognition from any Alberian Ministry let alone the sovereigns of Europe.
But I have met her. She married Wrexham Parflete, an extraordinary creature. He lived for years with the Archduke Charles of Alberia. People used to say that Mrs. Parflete was the Archduke's daughter. I ran across Parflete the other day in Sicily." "But he is dead," said Pensée, much agitated; "he drowned himself." "I cannot help that," repeated Sir Piers.
An aggressive attitude on her part could at most and at the worst, but lead to these things a change of dynasty, and the annexation of Alberia by one of the Powers, or its partition among some of them. We wish Alberia to become another Switzerland a little Paradise of law-abiding, industrious, rich, independent people!" "All the same," said he, "my wife may not sell her birth-right.
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