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"Oh, I 'm not returning to Isola Nobile tonight," Susanna jauntily mentioned, her chin a little perked up in the air. Then, with the sweetest smile through which there pierced, perhaps, just a faint glimmer of secret mischief? "I 'm starting on my wander-year," she added, and waved her hand imperially towards the open sea. It was a progression of surprises for the tall, thin old Commendatore.
She noted the height and majestic bearing of this cousin of kings, noted the aquiline nose drooped over a contracted mouth which could assume most winning curves, withal shaded by suspicious down, that echoed in hue her inky eyebrows. The eyes of the princess were small and green and her glance penetrating. Her white hair rolled imperially from a high, narrow forehead.
Prohack demanded, indicating a little man with the aspect of a prize-fighter who was imperially conveying to Mrs. Prohack that Mrs. Prohack was lucky to get him to her reception. "Why!" replied Mr. Bishop. "That's the Napoleon of the stage." "Not Asprey Chown!" "Asprey Chown." "Great Scott!" And Mr. Prohack laughed. "Why are you laughing?" "Mere glee.
Hope hardly ever talks about them, but I've seen their photographs, and of course I have often been told about them by Great-aunt Alison, and others and heard how they died. They were very clever and good-looking and well-liked the kind of sons mothers are very proud of, and they all died imperially, if that is an expression to use.
"Drive to Claridge's Hotel," said Mr. Prohack. "Yes, sir." At the entrance to the hotel the party was received by gigantic uniformed guards with all the respect due to an Eagle. Ignoring the guards, Mr. Prohack passed imperially within to the reception office. "I want a bedroom, a sitting-room and a bath-room, please." "A private suite, sir?" "A private suite." "What er kind, sir? We have "
It abounds in instances of extremest compression and most daring ellipsis; while it exhibits in every scene a union of supreme dramatic and poetic power, and in almost every line an imperially irresponsible control of language.
If Home Rule were really a stepping-stone towards Imperial Federation, how insincere our professions of "thinking Imperially," if we are not prepared to sacrifice a merely local sentiment of union for a great all-embracing ideal! But, as a matter of fact, there is no such analogy bearing on the question which, here and now, is at issue.
Ninety per cent of its former workers left to join the colors, but a new army of over thirty thousand men and women was mustered and trained within its huts for the service of the British soldiers. The Y M C A had suddenly to "think imperially," and to minister to a world at war.
They rang imperially for the lift. Lackeys bowed humbly before them. They spoke of taxi-cabs and other luxuries. They were perfectly at home in the grandeur of the hotel. As the illuminated lift carried them down out of sight, their smiling heads disappearing last, they seemed exactly like persons of extreme wealth. And indeed for the moment they were wealthy.
This view of the kingly succession may seem Oriental, but it is not surprising when one reflects that the Hohenzollern dynasty is over a thousand years old and during that time has ruled successively in part of Southern Germany, in Brandenburg, in Prussia, until at last, imperially, in all Germany.
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