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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Yes, the emperor fell into a deathlike slumber and would have been unable to resist or to defend himself had he been bound and gagged and quietly carried away. Yet what did the generals and colonels who had assembled in the large reception-hall close beside the sleeping emperor's private office?
The door had been opened and an electric light in the reception-hall shone in. Framed in the doorway was the outline of a man. Orme shouted joyfully and jumped to his feet. "Why what ?" the man began. Orme helped the girl up, and together they went to the outer light. For a moment they could do nothing but breathe, so good the fresh air of the reception-room seemed to them.
I'll be coming out to attend some of these court proceedings." To his sister he said: "Good-by, Anna. Don't let the others get too down-hearted." "I'll see you three afterward," he said to his father and brothers; and so, dressed in the very best fashion of the time, he hurried down into the reception-hall, where Steger was waiting, and was off.
She had fluttered from reception-hall to reading-room, and back again she had been alert, breathless, eager. But, with the assignment of regular duties, some of the adventure had been drained from life.
Then our men cursed like fiends, and swept out of the room, and as no one remained to hold me down, I stumbled after them into the big reception-hall, and came upon Laguerre, lying rigid and still upon a red-silk sofa.
A sudden shock of heavy trampling feet in the reception-hall, accompanied by a clash of excited voices, silenced her and brought Lanyard instantly to the face-about. Above that loud wrangle of which neither had received the least warning, so completely had their argument absorbed them Sidonie's accents were audible: "Madame madame!" a cry of protest. "What is it?" madame demanded of Lanyard.
And he was no more than there, in the shadow of the portieres, when light from an electrolier flooded the reception-hall. It showed him a single figure, that of a handsome woman, considerably beyond middle age but still a well-poised, vigorous, and commanding presence, in full evening dress of such magnificence as to suggest recent attendance at some State function.
After I had been kept waiting for about a quarter of an hour, a messenger entered the room and informed the treasurer that the Khan was disengaged, and ready to receive me. We now entered a long corridor, which led to an inner court-yard. Here we found the reception-hall, a large tent, or kibitka, of a dome-like shape.
He was jealous of the actors, the scene-shifters, who were permitted to see her come and go. He was reserved and rather pale, but perfectly self-contained, as he entered the little reception-hall leading to her dressing-room. He faced her with a sense of dread apprehensive of some disenchantment.
I am too young to welcome as a guest every one whom this or that man presents to me. True, our reception-hall was my father's work-room and you, my own estimable, blameless mother, are the hostess here; but though superior to me in every respect, you are so modest that you shield yourself behind your daughter until the guests think of you only when you are absent.
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