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Updated: June 13, 2025
"I always like to put people out of suspense," said the captain, "because it unsettles a man so now hear me; if I happened to press one of the blood-royal, and the king, and the queen, and all the little princesses were to go down on their knees, I'd keep him, without an Admiralty order for his discharge. Now, my lads, do you perceive your chance?"
"Who really is any one in Paris," continued Marrast, "the blood-royal always and alone excepted?"
The hair seemed to have been sandy, or inclining to yellow. It is well known that nothing is so uniform in the present Indian as his lank black hair. From the pains taken to preserve the bodies, and the great labour of making the funeral robes in which they were folded, they must have been of the 'blood-royal, or personages of great consideration in their day.
You can attend to anybody, if you will remember who he is. How do you suppose that Horace Felltham attends to these old ladies, and these shy boys? Why, he remembers that they are all of the blood-royal. To speak very seriously, he remembers whose children they are, who is their Father. And that is worth remembering.
"Sir," sayeth I, "my name is PARTRIDGE!" "Oh! the Doctor's brother, belike," cries he. The Doctor must needs die rich. He had great dealings in his way, for many years. They are as showish and will look as magnificent as if he were descended from the Blood-Royal." With that, I assumed a greater air of authority, and demanded, "Who employed him? and how he came there?"
The one of whom I speak flashed like a meteor upon Paris, bought from a prince of the Bourse a palace that might have lodged a prince of the blood-royal, eclipsed our Jew bankers in splendour, our jeunesse doree in good looks and hair-brain adventures, and, strangest of all, filled his salons with philosophers and charlatans, chemists and spirit-rappers; insulting the gravest dons of the schools by bringing them face to face with the most impudent quacks, the most ridiculous dreamers, and yet, withal, himself so racy and charming, so bon prince, so bon enfant!
In pursuit of her I wandered from room to room, from path to path among the bewildering maze of alleys in the enchanted dreamland of the nether world of sleep. Sometimes in the evening, while arraying myself carefully as a prince of the blood-royal before a large mirror, with a candle burning on either side, I would see a sudden reflection of the Persian beauty by the side of my own.
Then let us have something to eat at once." "Who's Prince George of England?" demanded Monsignor presently as they sat over coffee. Father Jervis laughed. "You've found that out, have you? Yes, he's here, of course. Well, he's the second son: he's only a boy. He's over here to represent the King. Every sovereign sends a prince of the blood-royal for to-day. Even the German Emperor."
Here is not a question of trumpry lords and honrabbles, generals and barronites, but the crown itself, and the king and queen's actions; witch may be considered as the crown jewels. Here's princes, and grand-dukes and airsparent, and heaven knows what; all with blood-royal in their veins, and their names mentioned in the very fust page of the peeridge.
Talking of gods," he went on in a whisper, "have you heard what happened an hour ago in the temple of Ptah of Tanis whence I have just come? Pharaoh and all the Blood-royal save one walked according to custom before the statue of the god which, as you know, should bow its head to show that he chooses and accepts the king.
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