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Gabriel, himself smitten by the charms of the Princess, at once offered himself in marriage, agreeing to advance, in case she accepted him, twenty million gavvos, at a rather high rate of interest, for fifteen years. His love for her was so great that he would pawn the entire principality for an answer that would make him the happiest man on earth. Now, the troubled Princess abhorred Gabriel.
The other merely grunted. There was a silence of some duration, broken by the first speaker. "If this job fails and you are caught it will mean years of servitude." "But in that case we are to have ten thousand gavvos apiece for each year we lie in prison. It's fair pay not only for our failure, but for our silence," said the other, whose English was more difficult to understand.
He would serve and save Graustark, as you know, and he would satisfy Axphain. It is in my power to give you aid at this last, trying hour, and I implore you to listen to my words of sincerest friendship, yes, adoration. To-morrow you are to pay to Prince Bolaroz over twenty-five million gavvos or relinquish the entire north half of your domain. I understand the lamentable situation.
For each kiss from her wondrous lips I shall credit myself with one thousand gavvos. That is the price of a kiss." "I'll give two thousand!" roared one of the nobles, and there was a laugh in which the Prince joined. "Nay! I'll not sell them now. In after years, when she has grown old and her lips are parched and dry from the sippings I have had, I'll sell them all at a bargain.
"I'll lay you a hundred gavvos that the kettle and smoke experiment is a fake of the worst sort," he announced, after a somewhat lengthy appeal to be allowed to enter the hut as a simple seeker after knowledge. "Have it your own way! Have it your own way!" she cackled. "Tell you what I'll do; if I can't expose that trick in ten minutes, I'll make you a present of a hundred gavvos."
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