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"I could not so soon I wanted, because I was to serve an American princess." Mrs. March started with proud conjecture of one of those noble international marriages which fill our women with vainglory for such of their compatriots as make them. "Oh, come now, Lili!" said Burnamy. "We have queens in America, but nothing so low as princesses. This was a queen, wasn't it?"
"The TWO of them?" Whereupon Watson learned something rather peculiar. It seemed that the princes of D'Hartia had always married the queens. This Senestro had had a brother, but he died. And in such an event it was the iron custom that the surviving brother marry both queens. It had happened only once before in all history; but the precedent was unbreakable. "Then, there is nothing against it?"
I'll be with thee in the morning ere thou partest, if kings, queens, and cardinals roar themselves hoarse for the Quipsome." With this promise Hal Randall bestowed his still dulled and half- stunned nephew carefully on the pallet provided by the care of the purveyors.
What's the use of legs to those who have no wish to walk? What's the use of languages to those who cannot talk? What's the use of kings and queens that haven't any throne? What's the use of having pains unless you're going to groan? What's the use of anything, however grand and good, That doesn't ever, ever work the way it really should?"
"Pray, remember, sir, that if finery be thrown away upon the noble sex, at the present day, it was not always so. Let me refer you to certain kings, who, not content with studying their own dresses, have condescended to compose those of their queens, too. Remember how many great heroes your Turennes and Marlboroughs have appeared in diamonds and satin, velvet and feathers!"
Apart from his colonial career, he had been to Greece in a brigantine with four brass carronades; he had travelled Europe in a chaise and four, drawing bridle at the palace-doors of German princes; queens of song and dance had followed him like sheep and paid his tailor's bills.
Here in the town no respectable shoemaker will mend the dirty shoes of the "Top-galeass"; she goes about in down-trodden top-boots, or, if the snipping season has been poor, she wears wooden shoes. In Paris there are women who wear shoes at twenty guineas a pair, who carry themselves like queens, earn forty thousand pounds a year, and are yet nothing but prostitutes. Forty thousand!
"Yes, you may," said Marjorie. "In fact, Baby, you'd better go first of all, because you're Maid of Honor; and so you walk in front of the Queen Dowager." So Rosy Posy toddled ahead, followed by Mrs. Maynard, who carried a wand of flowers with gracious effect. "The Queens ought to come next," said King, but Marjorie's sense of politeness interfered with this plan.
But there is an old saying that tells us, Might makes right; and the servants of the kings and queens the adventurers and explorers of old used to go sailing about the world with this idea in their heads, and as soon as they came to a land they, had never seen before, up would go their flag, and they would say, This land is mine and my king's!
It is an interesting conceit, at any rate, that the stone might bring to kings and queens a blessing and a promise, as it had done for Jacob, averting the emotion of subjection and perpetuating the emotion of elation. Now, there's Hazzard, the big, glorious Hazzard. I met him first on the deck of the S. S. Campania, and I gladly agreed to his proposal that we travel together.
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