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"Yes, very nice," he remarked. "As good as anything you will get in Aquazilia." Then St. Nivel did something which appeared to me to be an additional sign that he had taken leave of his senses. "Won't you take the box, Capitano?" he asked. The man smiled and shook his great head. "Thank you," he said, "they are too mild for me." St.
"The letter to the latter, in which I told him I should come here if I lived, of course I placed in the ebony casket with something else that was worth more to me than all the diamonds in the world; it was the certificate of my marriage to Prince Adalbert of Rittersheim at the little church of the remote mountain village in Aquazilia. "I was far more fearful of losing that than all my fortune.
"A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between William Frederick, only son of the late Sir Henry and Lady Mary Anstruther, and Dolores, only daughter of Don Juan d'Alta, for some years Prime Minister of the late Queen Inez of Aquazilia." This announcement brought us a shower of congratulations and inquiries as to the date of the wedding.
During the whole of my long connection with Aquazilia," he added, "I have only known such a robbery as this occur twice, and knowing the present peaceful and law-abiding state of the country, I cannot understand it." "Very well then, Sir Rupert," I said, after a pause, "I will submit to these men, but I call upon you to witness my protest at the outrage!"
He had been burning to kill something big in the game line ever since he had set foot on shore, and I was quite prepared to hear him ask the abbot when he arrived whether he was "a huntin' man." He had asked that question of almost everybody we had met up to then in Aquazilia. The abbot, however, came at last, just as Don Juan was concluding an account of St.
Just as if I could look jealous and of such a man! And so we left Aquazilia behind with its sunshine and lavish hospitality, and took ship again the dear old Oceana for our own foggy island, which I did not much relish returning to in February. But Dolores was with me and she made sunshine everywhere.
The old lady had lived long enough in England to appreciate the attentions of a lord, and he a rich one, without designs on her niece's fortune. Yes, that fortune was my stumbling-block; I learned of it from old Sir Rupert Frampton, our minister to Aquazilia, who was travelling back to his post on the Oceana.
It was a most finished piece of workmanship, and measured, I should think, about six inches by perhaps two and a half. In raised letters on the lid was carved the letter C as on the seals. On a small parchment label firmly secured to it by silk was: "To His Excellency the Senor JUAN D'ALTA, Valoro, Aquazilia."
"Indeed," I replied, curious to keep the old man talking, for I was desirous of hearing as much as I possibly could about Aquazilia and its capital, Valoro, "it sounds quite romantic." "Well, it was romantic in a way," he proceeded, glad to have a listener, as old men are; "there's always a certain amount of romance about the court of a reigning queen.
I wondered who it was he reminded me of, whose face he brought so vividly to my recollection. Yet striking as the likeness was to some one, I could not recall who that some one was. "You must be hungry after your drive, gentlemen," he said, speaking very fair English, as indeed most educated people did in Aquazilia. "I have ordered déjeuner at once for you.
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