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"In fact," admitted the Grand Duke, "we do not want a scandal" "It is no longer," the Baroness considered, "altogether a question of what we want." "And, morbleu! there will be a horrible scandal " "The public gazettes will thrive on it." " and trouble with her father, if not international complications " "The armies of Noumaria and Badenburg have for years had nothing to do."
As he reached the summit of a slight incline he turned and looked toward the road that leads from Breschau to Vienna. A cloud of dust showed where the carriage had disappeared. "Ma foi!" said his Highness; "my wife has very fully proven her executive ability. Beyond doubt, there is no person in Europe better qualified to rule Noumaria as Regent." As Played at Ingilby, October 6, 1755
He had the head of a tiger, but otherwise the appearance of a large bird, with shining feathers and four feet: his neck was yellow, his body green, and his feet black. "It would not be treating honestly with you to deny that I am the Emperor of Noumaria," said Jurgen, somewhat advancing his estate.
You shall make no more bad poets." "You will," said the Baroness, "put me to a vast expense for curl-papers." "You shall ensnare no more admirers." "My milliner will be inconsolable." "In short, you must leave Noumaria " "You condemn me to an exile's life of misery!" "Well, then, since misery loves company, I will go with you.
"Indeed," says Jurgen, "I have often regretted that I did not bring with me my jewelled sceptre when I left Noumaria." She shivered at some unspoken thought: it was not until some while afterward that Florimel told Jurgen of her humiliating misadventure with the absent-minded Sultan of Garcao's sceptre. Now she only replied that jewels might, conceivably, seem ostentatious and out of place.
And I would that I had never made myself the emperor of Noumaria: for this emperor goes about everywhere in a fabulous splendor, and is, very naturally, resistless in his semi-mythical magnificence. Ah, but these imperial gewgaws distract the thoughts of Florimel from the real Jurgen; so that the real Jurgen is a person whom she does not understand at all. And it is not fair."
"And the de Gatinais estates? but beyond question, my dear Louis! Next week we return to France, and the affair is easily arranged. You may abdicate in due form, you need no longer skulk about Europe disguised as a piano-tuner; it is all one to France, you conceive, whether you or your son reign in Noumaria. You should have come to me sooner.
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