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King Oscar also tried to heal the wounds of the past by opening the vaults of the church of Riddarholm to the sarcophagi of Gustavus IV, the exiled king, and his son, and by giving Queen Carola of Saxony, the only living granddaughter of Gustavus, repeated proofs of esteem and considerate distinction.
This generosity made me at once, and sincerely, repentant for my flippancy concerning Charles the Second and Elizabeth. And so, partly from being tempted by this apple of Eve, and partly because recent overwork had tired me, but chiefly for her sake, and not to thwart at the outset her kindly-meant ambitions for me, I kissed the hand of my Aunt Carola and set forth to Kings Port.
"Well, what will you do?" asks Adolphe; "it seems impossible to joke or have an explanation with you women. What will you do?" "It doesn't concern you at all." "Excuse me, madame, quite the contrary. Dignity, honor " "Oh, have no fear of that, sir. For your sake more than for my own, I will keep it a dead secret." "Come, Caroline, my own Carola, what do you mean to do?"
Now, the country house is a weakness peculiar to the inhabitant of Paris. This weakness, or disease, has its course and its cure. Adolphe is a husband, but not a doctor. He buys the house and takes possession with Caroline, who has become once more his Caroline, his Carola, his fawn, his treasure, his girly girl.
The path that had led Richard Shafer into the Rue de Grenelle and under the windows of Carola Brune without knowing it, was long and roundabout, and in places rather rough. It was one of the by-ways of the unknown quantity. To him, from the first, the thought of the perfect summer had been like something that he had lost and would never find again. It made him dissatisfied, fickle, and resentful.
By the middle of August 1887 there were five sail of German war-ships in Apia bay: the Bismarck, of 3000 tons displacement; the Carola, the Sophie, and the Olga, all considerable ships; and the beautiful Adler, which lies there to this day, kanted on her beam, dismantled, scarlet with rust, the day showing through her ribs. They waited inactive, as a burglar waits till the patrol goes by.
It is very satisfying to the Swedish people that by a strange play of circumstances, the claims of the extinct House of Vasa, the last direct descendant of which passed away a few days after King Oscar, in the person of Carola, Dowager-Queen of Saxony, and daughter of the deposed King Gustavus Adolphus IV of Sweden, are again restored, and that the reigning House of Bernadotte and the ancient House of Vasa have become joined through the present Crown Prince.
Gregory said to me, "that you haven't told me a word about your Aunt Carola, and that I shall expect you to come and do it." She went slowly away from us, up the East Place, tall, graceful, sweeping into the distance like a ship. No haste about her dignified movement, no swinging of elbows, nothing of the present hour! "What a beautiful girl she must have been!" I murmured aloud, unconsciously.
"Well, what will you do?" asks Adolphe; "it seems impossible to joke or have an explanation with you women. What will you do?" "It doesn't concern you at all." "Excuse me, madame, quite the contrary. Dignity, honor " "Oh, have no fear of that, sir. For your sake more than for my own, I will keep it a dead secret." "Come, Caroline, my own Carola, what do you mean to do?"
Aunt Carola had written me again this morning, but I had been in no haste to open her letter; my neglect of the Bombos did not weigh too heavily upon me, I fear, but I certainly did put off reading what I expected to be a reprimand. And concerning this I was right; her first words betokened reprimand at once. "My dear nephew Augustus," she began, in her fine, elegant handwriting.
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