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Updated: May 19, 2025
They had reached dessert; and Miss Lambart was congratulating her on the improvement in her appetite since she had just made an excellent meal, and said that it must be the air of Muttle Deeping. The baroness uttered a loud and contemptuous snort, and filled her plate with peaches. The princess looked at her with an expression of great dislike.
It is the princess we are considering," said Miss Lambart unkindly, for she had come quite to the end of her patience with the baroness. "Drue!" said the archduke quickly. "Shall eet zen be zat ze princess live ze life of a beast in a gave?" cried the baroness. "She isn't," said Miss Lambart shortly. "In fact she's leading a far better and healthier and more intelligent life than she does here.
Among the officers who fought under him at Nieuport were several whose names were to become famous for the part they afterwards bore in the civil struggle in England. Among others were Fairfax, Ogle, Lambart, and Parker. Among those who received the honour of knighthood for their behaviour at the battle was Lionel Vickars.
Miss Lambart was betaking herself to her bedroom to dress, when the archduke's equerry, the young mustached Count Zerbst came running up the stairs, bidding her in the name of his master come to dinner at once, as she was.
The princess frowned at her and said: "Mees Lambart will find them. Is it not, Mees Lambart?" "I shall be charmed to try, Highness," said Miss Lambart readily. "Do nod indervere! I veel zose childen vind myzelf!" snapped the baroness. The princess rose, still quivering a little from the conflict, but glowing with the joy of victory. At the door she paused to say: "And I want them soon at once."
He gave his card to the butler and told him to take it straight to Miss Lambart, with whom he was on terms of friendship rather than of acquaintance; and in less than three minutes she came to him in the drawing-room. She was looking anxious and worried; and as they shook hands he said: "Is this business worrying you?" "It is rather.
Miss Lambart grew tired of assuring them that the Twins were more efficient persons than nine Germans out of ten; and at last she said: "Well, Highness, to set your fears quite at rest, I will go and stay at the knoll myself. Then you can go back to Cassel-Nassau with your mind at ease; and I will undertake that the princess comes to you in better health than if she had stayed on here."
You shall 'eem lead to ze wood. 'E shall breeng 'er." Miss Lambart protested that to wander in the Deeping woods with a German count would hardly be proper. "Brobare? What ees 'brobare'?" said the archduke. "Convenable," said Miss Lambart.
Then at the very moment at which on more fortunate days he was wont to sink heavily, with his mouth watering, into a large chair before a gloriously spread German table, he heard the sound of voices; and the chauffeur, Miss Lambart and Sir Maurice came out of the path to the knoll. They told the duke that they had neither seen nor heard anything of the princess, her hosts, or Count Zerbst.
"I wonder," said Sir Maurice skeptically. "We found a little boy called Rupert Carrington to play with her a very nice little boy," said Miss Lambart. "Wiggins! The Twins' greatest friend! Well, I'll be shot!" cried Sir Maurice; and he laughed. "But do you mean to say that you think that these children have something to do with the princess' disappearance?
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