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No one knew what personal reasons the Imperatorskoye had for the wish, but she had so definitely and unmistakably made the desire known to all her councillors that none dreamed of disobeying the mandate of their deceased and ever-to-be-lamented Queen. Her slightest wish had always been to them an Unassailable law.
And the face depicted there with some unknown master's consummate skill how often had it proved for him the only consolation he could find in the whole world. His eyes dimmed as they conveyed to him the image of his still beloved Imperatorskoye he pressed the bauble to his lips. Ah! God! the cold glass! How different from her melting kiss! Not easily did he control his emotions.
And then the faithful servant took up Anna's tale. How this good girl had been watching on the side of the villa towards the town, and had heard the King come battering at the gate. How she had flown to warn her mistress, but that the Imperatorskoye had sent her back to watch, saying she herself would call Dmitry to protect them.
He fell on his knees with the murmured words of supplication: "O Imperatorskoye!" And Paul guessed it meant Imperial Highness, and a great wonder grew in his mind. Their supper was laid in the loggia again, and under the windows the musicians still played and sang a gentle accompaniment to their sighs of love.
The Excellency would then see the never-to-be-sufficiently-beloved baby King. Of this glorious child he Dmitry found it difficult to write. It was as if the Imperatorskoye breathed again in his spirit, while he was the portrait of his illustrious father, proving how deeply and well the Imperatorskoye must have loved that father.
It is the desire of both courts and councils that the marriage shall be solemnized on the fifteenth of the May following your twenty-first birthday, at which time the coronation ceremony takes place that is to place the crown of the kingdom upon the head of the son of our beloved and ever-to-be-regretted Imperatorskoye.
One more visit he would pay to the scenes of his love-idyl, to the place where his beloved Imperatorskoye had come into his life, there to commune again with her in spirit, there to feel her regal presence, to seek from her that final supreme consolation which his wounded heart craved this was Paul's quest. And then he would return to England and Isabella.
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