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Updated: May 12, 2025
But nevertheless he was delighted; for here were his mother and the uncle the valuable and highly to be cherished uncle looking as pleased as possible with each other, and apparently in the fairest way to becoming fast friends. The cheerful goddess who had brought Fritzing and his Princess safely over from Kunitz was certainly standing by them well.
Kunitz stretches right round the hill, lying clasped about its castle like a necklet of ancient stones. At the foot of the castle walls the ducal orchards and kitchen gardens begin, continuing down to the water's edge and clothing the base of the hill in a garment of blossom and fruit.
Now what Priscilla had seen of England had been the insides of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle; of all insides surely the most august. To and from these she had been conveyed in closed carriages and royal trains, and there was so close a family likeness between them and Kunitz that to her extreme discomfort she had felt herself completely at home.
And there, so near is Kunitz to the soul of things, you may any morning get into the train after breakfast and in the afternoon find yourself drinking coffee in the cool colonnades of the Piazza San Marco at Venice. Kunitz is the capital of the duchy, and the palace is built on a hill.
Morrison's, Lady Shuttleworth's had been so angry lately whenever they rested on her that his seemed so very kind? No; she did remember thinking them that, even being struck by them, when she saw him first in Kunitz. A dull red crept into her face when she remembered that day and what followed.
"Yes, yes; that is what I have been telling him ever since we left Kunitz" Priscilla shivered "but he will not go. Dost thou hear what the Fräulein says, Hans-Joachim?" "Why don't she take that black thing off?" whimpered the child. But how could the poor Princess, however anxious to be kind, take off her veil and show her well-known face to this probable inhabitant of Kunitz?
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