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Updated: May 12, 2025
Count Malagaski did not know that the shameful fact of Kalora's thinness was being whispered among the young men of Morovenia. When the daughters were out for their daily carriage-ride both wore flowing robes. In the case of Kalora, this augmented costume was intended to conceal the absence of noble dimensions.
"Over a wall ten feet high?" demanded the Governor-General. "Without touching his hands, sir. He was very tall; must have been seven feet." "If you ever had an atom of gray matter, evidently this stranger has beaten it out of you. Hurry and notify the police!" Kalora's candid version of the whole affair was hardly less startling than that of the guards.
Kalora's education was being directed by a superannuated professor named Popova. He was so antique and book-wormy that none of the usual objections urged against the male sex seemed to hold good in his case, and he had the free run of the palace. Count Selim Malagaski trusted him implicitly. Popova fawned upon the Governor-General, and seemed slavish in his devotion.
"Then take her to the country club and teach her the game of golf, and remember the old saying at home, that no man was ever given praise for attempting to govern another man's family." So it was settled that the Legation would not attempt any supervision of Kalora's daily program.
These casual comments did not seem to arouse any burning curiosity among the young men, and up to the day of Kalora's nineteenth anniversary they had not had the effect of bringing to the father any of those guarded inquiries which, under the oriental custom, are always preliminary to an actual proposal of marriage. Count Selim Malagaski had a double reason for wishing to see Kalora married.
Plumston's big basket-chair between them and carried it around to the other side of the tree. And the two young men who had been waiting just behind picked up Kalora's chair and carried her to the other side of the tree, and put her down beside the consul's wife. Did they carry her? No, they dandled her. She was as light as a feather for these two young giants of the military.
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