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"Yes," said I, "I understand and I rather reckon I would, if it had not been that, a year before I ever saw the Lady Helen, I had ridden with the Princess Dehra, alone, in the Palace forest, for an hour." At last, I saw Courtney's cold face show genuine surprise. "And you made no effort then to prove your cousinship?" he exclaimed. "No," said I.
Dehra blew a cloud of smoke at me. "So do I," she answered. Then she went over and kissed the King. And Frederick continued to smile, and my courage grew proportionately. I came straight to the point. "May it please you, Sire," I said, "I have the honor to pray the hand of the Princess Royal in marriage."
On a front a mile and a half long to the south of them was the Meerut Division, supported by the Lahore Division. The Garhwal Brigade was on the left and the Dehra Dun Brigade was on its right. In the first attack the Twenty-third dashed to the northeast corner of the village, the Twenty-fifth against the village itself; and the Garhwal Brigade charged on the southwest corner.
"Sit here, Armand," she commanded, touching the arm of her own chair. I hesitated; and the King regarded her in stern surprise. Then I smiled a negation and went on to the place Frederick had indicated. Straightway, Dehra got up and, coming behind me and leaning on the chair back, she put her arms about my neck. I reached up and took her hand then, arose and stood beside her.
I dropped my hand below the table and found her fingers. "You meant it, Dehra; truly?" I asked. Sue released her fingers and placed both hands on the cloth. "Of course I meant it when I wrote it," she said. "That's quite as much as I've any right to expect," I answered. "That's the proper frame of mind, cousin," said she. "And the sort you prefer in your admirers?"
But to-morrow was the future; to-night was mine. I was in favor; a King across the table; a beautiful woman beside me. What more could any man wish? And, when Dehra whispered: "Do you know, Armand, you are very handsome to-night?" I tossed all discretion overboard and made violent love to her before them all. Nor heeded Courtney's warning looks, nor Lady Helen's curious glances.
"You will not permit me to drive alone to the Palace," she said. "But, Dehra " I began again. She reached over and took my hand. Still I hesitated. "Come, sweetheart," she said softly. I could resist no longer. I sprang in; the door slammed, and we were alone together. No, not alone, either. The Spencer woman was there with us before us all around us.
Thus it was not until 3.30 p. m. that three brigades of the Seventh Division, the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Brigades were in their places on the left of the Twenty-fourth Brigade. Then the left moved southward toward Aubers. At the same time the Indian Corps, composed of the Garhwal Brigade and the Dehra Dun Brigade, forced its way through the Bois du Biez toward the ridge.
He had long wished for a diplomatic way to rid himself of the troublesome province, and the marriage of Casimir and Dehra would afford it. Murdol could be settled upon the Princess as her dower. It was an admirable solution of the whole vexing question.
"You're very wise," the Princess laughed. Lady Helen shook her head. "You see, I've known Major Dalberg a long time," she said. "Oh! then you had met before the night of the Ball?" I looked at Dehra wonderingly. Had she forgotten that I myself had told her, on the terrace, how long I had known the Radnors. "We were old dinner and cotillon partners in Washington," Lady Helen explained.
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