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Updated: January 24, 2026

All Ghikas, he said, suffered badly from the same incurable complaint a hole in the pocket a disease, alas, common to many other honest men! At any rate Albert Ghika's claim to the Albanian throne had obtained him a rich bride, which was always something. That he really expected to mount that throne was in the highest degree improbable, for he was no fool. "How much has the lady?"

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle