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Updated: May 2, 2025
They could ride man-fashion, hunt man-fashion, shoot, play cards and bet at the races man-fashion, and nobody threatened them with Doppelkinns. They might dance, too, till the sun came into the windows and the rouge on their faces cracked. But she! She would never marry Doppelkinn never. She would never watch his old nose grow purple at the table. She would run away.
"I should not be very much surprised." "Please look at this, then, and you will understand why I can not marry Doppelkinn." She thrust the bogus certificate into his hands. The duke read it carefully, not a muscle in his face disturbed. Finally he looked up with a terrifying smile. "Poor, foolish child! What a terrible thing this might have turned out to be!" "What do you mean?" "Mean?
I might go into a detailed history of the Doppelkinns, only it would be absurd and unnecessary, since it would be inappreciable under the name of Doppelkinn, which happens to be, as doubtless you have already surmised, a name of mine own invention.
She recalled the flaming fagots and the red-hot wire of her unfortunate wheel. A smile rippled over her face, but it passed quickly. There was nothing left to smile over. They were going to force her to marry a tomb, a man in whom love and courage and joy were as dead things. Woe to Doppelkinn, though woe to him! She would lead him a dance, wild and terrible.
As I was anxious to be off on the road I was compelled to listen to his gossip. THE GRAND DUKE In two months' time you shall wed the Prince of Doppelkinn. THE PRINCESS What! that old red-nose? Never! I shall marry only where I love. THE GRAND DUKE Only where you love! THE PRINCESS You have yet to learn. I warn you not to force me. I promise to do something scandalous.
"Yes; the girl shall marry you to-night," declared his serene Highness. "Not if I live to be a thousand!" Doppelkinn struck the table with his fist. The girl smiled at Max. "What?" cried the duke, all the coldness gone from his tones. "You refuse?" He was thunderstruck. "Refuse? Of course I refuse!" And the prince thumped the table again. "What do you think I am in my old age, an ass?
It was a great country for expeditiousness, as you will find, if you do me the honor to follow me to the end. So the grand duke swore that his niece should wed Doppelkinn, and the princess vowed that she would not. The man who had charge of my horses said that one of the palace maids had recounted to him a dialogue which had taken place between the duke and his niece.
Scharfenstein gravely bent his head and kissed it. "Good-by, Prince Charming!" she whispered, so softly that Max scarcely heard her. Then she entered the closed carriage and was driven up the dark, tree-enshrouded road that led to the Castle of Doppelkinn. "What are you going to do with me?" Max asked, as he gathered up the reins of his mount. "That we shall discuss later.
And the fish that leaped in frolic from the water, and the blackbird in the rushes! She could not understand. She would never marry Doppelkinn never. But how should she escape how? On Wednesday night she would be given her quarterly allowance of a thousand crowns, and on Thursday she must act. . . . Yes, yes, that was it! How simple!
The great circular reading-table was littered with new books, periodicals and illustrated weeklies. Once Doppelkinn had been threatened with a literary turn of mind, but a bad vintage coming along at the same time had effected a permanent cure. Max slid into a chair and took up a paper, turning the pages at random. What was the matter with the room? Certainly it was not close, nor damp, nor chill.
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