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Updated: June 25, 2025
"My God!" said the Princess, with an expression of horror, "how know you that, count?" "My most gracious Princess, I have a magician in my service, who acquaints me with everything that happens here at court and, above all things, in the palace of the Queen of Bohemia, and first of all in the apartments of the Princess Ludovicka Hollandine." "And the name of this magician is?"
Well, gracious lady, walls can be leveled, and my enchanter Ducato can turn them into doors! Repair to the grotto hall and the cavern on the right. There will Venus be transformed into the Princess Ludovicka, and still be Venus! Then cross over to the cavern on the left, where, instead of Endymion, waits the Electoral Prince. She gives him her hand!
Therefore they wish to detain him yet longer at The Hague, and so to bind him there that he shall be wholly theirs, linked by an indissoluble chain. On that account they wish to bring about this marriage with the Princess Ludovicka Hollandine. I must confide to your highness the information that report has already bruited it abroad, and that it is spoken of at the imperial court.
But I tell you, if you do not believe me, neither do you believe in love itself." "I do not believe in it, either, cousin; and you are quite right, your heart is a lake of fire. You know, though, all fires become extinct?" "When fuel is denied them, Ludovicka not till then. They burn constantly, if supplied with constant fuel."
"If they give us time, Frederick," sighed Ludovicka. "If they do not force me first to wed some other man." "What do you say?" cried the Electoral Prince, growing pale, as he clasped his beloved yet closer to his side. "Could it be possible that " "That they sell and barter me away, just as they do other princesses? Yes, alas! it is possible.
Let it now he blazoned forth through all Berlin, through the whole country, even as far as the imperial court of Vienna, and through the whole world. The Princess Ludovicka also will then hear of it, and the report of this confession of my love will reach her.
"How does he know my prayer?" she whispered softly, "and why did he smile as he repeated it? Ah! surely Cousin Ludovicka has told him what a timid little coward I was last night. But hark! Hulda is lowing. Yes, yes, I am coming now!"
Well, now, the Princess Ludovicka Hollandine belongs to the society of the Media Nocte!" "I knew that, Prince," said Leuchtmar solemnly. The Prince gave a scream of rage, and a deadly pallor overspread his cheeks.
"Aunt," said the child, in a touching tone of voice, "I will be perfectly still and quiet, I shall certainly not disturb you, if you will only be good and kind enough to come with me." "No," said Ludovicka, "no, I am not going with you, for I have something still to do here.
"I, too, swear to love and be ever true to you, and to take you for my husband. And here you have my betrothal kiss, and here you have your destined bride. Take her, and love her a little, for she loves you very much, and she will die of chagrin if you forget her!" "I shall never forget you, Ludovicka!" cried he, tenderly embracing her.
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