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Updated: May 21, 2025
If I will advance his uncle, Prince Saldem, half a million to redeem his mortgaged estates, the prince promises to adopt the nephew, your suitor, as his son. You would then be a princess, Elise, and I would have the proud satisfaction of calling a prince my son."
"As if the king would consent to a nobleman thus demeaning himself!" cried Elise; "as if he would graciously allow the count so far to degrade himself!" "Oh, the king will consent," continued her father in a light tone. "You know that he is fond of me. Only say whether you consent to become Countess Saldem." "Never!" cried she proudly.
"And let me tell you, my child, you have only to choose whether you will place on this beautiful hair an earl's coronet or a prince's diadem. And this, my child, is the reason of my visit to-day." "On business," murmured she, almost inaudibly, with a bitter smile. Gotzkowsky continued "Young Count Saldem applied to me yesterday for your hand." "Count Saldem?" asked Elise. "I hardly know him.
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