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Ruritania demanded it to complete her natural geographical frontier. If you fixed your attention long enough on the ineffable value of what is natural, those alien peasants just dissolved into fog, and only the slope of the mountains was visible. The next sector was inhabited by Ruritanians, and on the principle that no people ought to live under alien rule, they were re-annexed.
For every year Fritz carries with him to Dresden a little box; in it lies a red rose, and round the stalk of the rose is a slip of paper with the words written: "Rudolf Flavia always." And the like I send back by him. That message, and the wearing of the rings, are all that now bind me and the Queen of Ruritania.
That night James, the servant, took leave of his dead master and of us. He carried to England by word of mouth for we dared write nothing down the truth concerning the King of Ruritania and Mr. Rassendyll. It was to be told to the Earl of Burlesdon, Rudolf's brother, under a pledge of secrecy; and to this day the earl is the only man besides ourselves who knows the story.
I cannot tell fully what the others felt, but in me at least the dominant impulse was to waste not a moment in proclaiming the crime and raising the whole country in pursuit of Rupert, so that every man in Ruritania should quit his work, his pleasure, or his bed, and make it his concern to take the Count of Hentzau, alive or dead.
Suddenly Rupert lowered his point. The frown vanished from his face, and he spoke in his usual bantering tone. "By the way," said he, "perhaps we're letting our feelings run away with us. Have you more of a mind now to be King of Ruritania? If so, I'm ready to be the most faithful of your subjects." "You honor me, Count." "Provided, of course, that I'm one of the most favored and the richest.
Mrs Mitchell said he was the minister from some place with a name like Ruritania. She had a vague memory. There were to be forty guests for dinner and a few more in the evening.
On dowager-duchesses and retired empresses she was without parallel, and she went through life expressing perpetual regret that she had not known you were going to Ruritania, because she would have insisted upon your calling on her friend the Empress Lizajania.
Winfield was anxious to take Eugene seriously, for he felt drawn to him and Eugene studied Winfield's pale face, his thin, immaculate hands, his suit of soft, gray cloth. He looked as able as his public reputation made him out to be in fact, he looked better than anything he had ever done. Eugene had seen Ruritania and The Beeches.
If the credit of the Kingdom of Ruritania is good, such a loan as here described would be, or would have been before the war, an attractive issue, since the investor would get a good rate of interest for his money, and would be certain of getting par or £100, some day, for each bond for which he now pays £97.
Two, of course, went to Jess and Jimsy, another to Aunt Sallie Prescott; one to the captain of the Ruritania, and one other, which bore the address, "Eugene Mortlake, Esq." It was a mischievous freak that made Peggy write this last missive, which read: TO MR. EUGENE MORTLAKE, Per Steamer Ruritania in Mid-air: Greetings from aeroplane Golden Butterfly.
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