honourably-proved

Updated: May 11, 2025

Meantime, while the results of the Election to what was now called 'The Royal Government, were being daily recorded in all parts of the world, and the King himself, from a selection of the ablest and most honourably-proved men of the time, was forming a new Ministry, the news of these radical changes in the kingdom's affairs, spreading rapidly everywhere by cable, as news always spreads nowadays, reached a certain far corner in one of the most beautiful provinces of India, a corner scarcely known to the conventional traveller, where, in a wondrous palace, lent to them by one of the most civilised and kindly of Oriental potentates, a palace surrounded by gardens that might have been a true copy of the fabled Eden, Prince Humphry and the fair 'Gloria' of his life, were passing a happy, 'hidden-away' time of perfect repose.

Marie Corelli - Temporal Power