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Updated: May 17, 2025
He joked about her looks when she was born, when she was mistaken for a boy. "She will be clever," he said, "for she has taken us all in!" The Swedish people were as delighted with their little princess as were the people of Holland when the present Queen Wilhelmina was born, to carry on the succession of the House of Orange.
Here I cannot but linger, there are so many treasures rich and rare, the chief of which consists in the elaborate cabinets and other furniture, all of tortoiseshell and silver, quite the best I have seen of its kind. Some of it looks as though crammed with secret drawers, and I stand before it wondering whether Queen Wilhelmina will be as anxious to discover and overhaul them as I should be.
Then Phillida, her soul full of hope, talked to Mina of the power of faith, going over the ground traversed by Mrs. Frankland. She read the eleventh of Hebrews, and her face was transformed by the earnestness of her own belief as she advanced. Call it mesmerism, or what you will, she achieved this by degrees, that Wilhelmina thought as she thought, and felt as she felt.
In the King's absence nothing particular had occurred, except indeed the walking of a dreadful Spectre, three nights over, in the corridors of the Palace at Berlin; past the doors where our little Prince and Wilhelmina slept: bringing with it not airs from Heaven, we may fear, but blasts from the Other place! The stalwart sentries shook in their paces, and became "half-dead" from terror.
"I don't care," began Wilhelmina but she did, and so she stopped. And then the old plan, conceived æons ago, rose up and took possession of her mind. She followed along behind him, and already in her thoughts she was the owner of the Sockdolager Mine.
A Swedish Officer, with some skill in palmistry, many years ago, looked into her innocent little hand, and prophesied, "She was to be in terms of courtship, engagement or as good as engagement, with Four Kings, and to wed none of them." Wilhelmina counts them in her mature days.
"'An old friend, he repeated, and played a dismal melody on his reed. "I saw Wilhelmina enter the room, lift the white tabby in her arms, and bring her to my side. "'Shake hands with him, she commanded. "To my horror the tabby deliberately extended a paw and tapped me on the knuckles. "'Oh! I cried, in agony; 'this is a horrible dream! Why, oh, why can't I wake!
We must dissipate that dark humor. The music waits us; I will drive that fit out of you by an air or two on the flute. He gave me his hand, and led me into the other room. For the last two days of the visit, Wilhelmina admits, her Brother was a little kinder.
"No, most of them are what papa calls my 'admirations," answered Ruth with a laugh. "That picture of Queen Wilhelmina is my great joy because she looks like such a nice girl. The others are mostly musicians and composers. Papa bought them to encourage me in my music, because he is so anxious I shall make a success of it." "Why, this is interesting.
Encouraged by the success of this achievement, he resolved to practise the same experiment upon Wilhelmina, in hope of extracting an equal share of profit from her simplicity and attachment, and, at their very next nocturnal rendezvous in her chamber, reacted the farce already rehearsed, with a small variation, which he thought necessary to stimulate the young lady in his behalf.
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