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I asked. "Among the Jews yes, sire! I mean yes, SIR," she corrected herself. "You seldom see a red-headed Jew." "The Jews!" I repeated in astonishment. "Of course you know the S'helpburgs are descended directly from Solomon and have indeed some of his matrimonial peculiarities," she said, blushing. I was amazed but recalled myself. "But why do they call the Duke of Kohlslau Black Michael?"
When I came to, I found myself in a wagon lit, speeding beyond the Trulyruralania frontier. On my berth was lying a missive with the seal of the S'helpburgs. Tearing it open I recognized the handwriting of the Princess Flirtia. MY DEAR RUPERT, Owing to the confusion that arises from there being so many of you, I have concluded to accept the hand of the Duke Michael.
She told me that the Grand Duke Michael or Black Michael as he was called himself aspired to the throne, as well as to the hand of the Princess Flirtia, but was hated by the populace, who preferred the young heir, Prince Rupert; because he had the hair and features of the dynasty of the S'helpburgs, "which," she added, "are singularly like your own." "But is red hair so very peculiar here?"
"It's only part of a song of our great Ancestor." As she blushed slightly, I playfully flung around her fair neck the jeweled collar of the Order of the S'helpburgs three golden spheres pendant, quartered from the arms of Lombardy -with the ancient Syric motto, El Ess Dee. She toyed with it a moment, and then said softly: "You have changed, Rupert. Do ye no ken hoo?"
And that night I was seated on the throne of the S'helpburgs. As I gazed at the Princess Flirtia, glowing in the characteristic beauty of the S'helpburgs, and admired her striking profile, I murmured softly and half audibly: "Her nose is as a tower that looketh toward Damascus." She looked puzzled, and knitted her pretty brows. "Is that poetry?" she asked. "No" I said promptly.
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