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"He is Leopold Dietrich, a vintner, and we are soon to be married." There was a flaw in the usual sweetness of her voice. "So? What made him run away like this?" "He is new to Dreiberg. Perhaps he thought you were going to arrest every one. Oh, he has done nothing wrong; I am sure of that." "There is one way to prove it." "And what is that?" "Ask him if he is not a spy from Jugendheit," roughly.
If there was any envy between these two, it existed in the heart of the princess only. To be free like this, to come and go at will, to love where the heart spoke! She surrendered to another vagrant impulse. "Gretchen, I do not think I shall marry the king of Jugendheit." Gretchen grew red with pride. Her highness was telling her state secrets! "You love some one else, Highness?"
A few months ago he gave his royal uncle carte blanche to seek a wife for him. Politics demanded an alliance between Jugendheit and Ehrenstein. There have been too many years of useless antagonism. On the head of this bolt from Heaven comes the declaration of his majesty that he will marry any other princess on the continent." "They will pull this place down, brick by brick!" "Let them!
Steinbock himself was a polished, amiable gentleman, in no wise meriting this ill-feeling. The embassy was in all manner the most important in Dreiberg, though Prussia and Austria overshadowed it in wealth and prestige. At this moment the people gazed at the house less in rancor than in astonishment. The king of Jugendheit was to marry her serene highness!
"I have a fine country, too," she said, with pride; "prosperous, and an army not inferior to that of Jugendheit." "I was not making comparisons, your Highness." "I know that, my friend. I was simply speaking from the heart. But I doubt if the prince regent is a better man than our Herbeck." "I prefer Herbeck, never having met the prince regent. But I have some news for your highness."
If only I could find some way for you to escape!" "There is none," said the king. "Come, uncle; let us see what is going on down-stairs." Carmichael followed them down. "There they are, men!" cried the sub-chief. "You are under arrest!" "I am the king of Jugendheit," calmly announced Frederick Leopold. "Will you subject me to public arrest?" "And I," said the uncle, "am Ludwig, prince regent.
"Let her repudiate the negotiations. Let her say that she has changed her mind. His majesty is quite willing that the humiliation be his." "That is generous. But suppose she has set her heart on the crown of Jugendheit? What then?" The baron bit the ends of his mustache. "Suppose that?" the chancellor pressed relentlessly. "In that event, the affair is no longer in our hands but in God's."
"Oh, when the moment comes that I see the crown of Jugendheit on your beautiful head, all my work shall not have been in vain. So then, within seven days I shall come for your answer?" "One way or the other, my answer will be ready then." "There is one thing more, your Highness." "And that?" "There must not be so many rides in the morning with his excellency, Herr Carmichael."
It also recounted the excitement of the following day, the appearance of Gretchen on the steps of the palace, and the great shouting of the people as they acclaimed her the queen of Jugendheit. The second day out Carmichael's first opportunity came. He discovered Herbeck and his daughter leaning against the rail. He watched them uneasily, wondering how he might approach without startling her.
I have learned that he has been to his capital but twice since he was fifteen. He is even now absent on a hunting trip in Bavaria, and his coronation but a few days off. There will be only one king in Jugendheit, and that will be the prince regent." "He has done tolerably well up to the present," observed Carmichael, welcoming this change. "Jugendheit is prosperous; it has a splendid army.
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