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Updated: May 29, 2025
On the throne of the last sits one of the most romantic and picturesque figures in the world, His Highness James Vyner Brooke, a descendant of that Sir James Brooke who, in the middle years of the last century, made himself the "White Rajah" of Sarawak, and who might well have been the original of The Man Who Would Be King.
"Which of us two is a fool?" "Another thing, your Highness. Signora Rollina is a bad woman. I have heard of some love affairs of hers. You are deceived I therefore thought her not worthy of your attentions, and put off the meeting to-night at her house." "Signora Rollina! How did you come to hear of her?" "Another thing. Duke Herrman is terribly enraged about that business in the cellar.
"But there was one tall fellow," said a soldier, setting down his tankard, "who made a good fight and dour, and, but for me and my comrades, would have cut his way to the king." "Ay, ay, true; we saved his highness, and ought to have been knighted, but there's no gratitude nowadays!" "And who was this doughty warrior?" asked one of the bystanders, who secretly favoured the rebellion.
"Thank you," said I; "and I also beg your pardon and withdraw my adjectives." "Merci, Your Highness," he answered. "Let us consider the matter closed?" "With pleasure," said I. "And I shall hope to have the honor of crossing swords foils, I mean, with you, some day," he said meaningly. "The hope is intensely mutual, my dear Duke," I answered. He drew himself up to attention and saluted stiffly.
He omitted not to acquaint him how the king had treated those who had failed in their endeavours to cure the princess of her indisposition. "But your highness is the only person," added he, "that can cure her effectually, and you may present yourself without fear.
I added that it was only against this sort of people that I armed; that there was so little comparison between a private gentleman and his Highness that five hundred men were less to the Prince than a single lackey to me. The Duke, who owned I was in the right, went to the Queen to represent to her the evil consequences that would inevitably attend such measures.
'But you may tell me the first letter of it, gasped out the Princess. 'That Your Royal Highness is at liberty to guess, said Lorenzo. 'Does it begin with a Z? asked Angelica. The Painter said it wasn't a Z; then she tried a Y; then an X; then a W, and went so backwards through almost the whole alphabet.
But John said, in reply, that reading prayers was practised by his royal highness the duke of Kent, and all the noble families in England, as well as on board all his Britannic majesty's ships of war.
Much would it be for the service of Your Majesty that those Captains should be satisfied for their losses and rewarded which I have promised them, as Your Highness desired by your cedula, that others seeing how they are honored may be encouraged in the royal service.
The mode of proceeding should be that in a short time his Royal Highness should signify his intention to act by directing a meeting of the Privy Council, when he should declare his intention to take upon himself the care of the state, and should at the same time signify his desire to have the advice of Parliament, and order it by proclamation to meet early for the despatch of business.... It is of vast importance in the outset that he should appear to act entirely of himself, and, in the conferences he must necessarily have, not to consult, but to listen and direct."
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