Category: Romance
Princess Sophia’s father, the reigning Prince Leonard’s grandfather, was a man extraordinarily truculent in disposition, with a hand of iron under no velvet glove, and a temper frankly diabolical. His wife, the Grand Duchess Fedora, had died in giving birth to his only child,...
Princess Sophia’s father, the reigning Prince Leonard’s grandfather, was a man extraordinarily truculent in disposition, with a hand of iron under no velvet glove, and a temper...
2. CHAPTER II.Till the time she was twenty-one Princess Sophia lived quietly enough at Amandos, paying visits occasionally abroad, but passing a full ten months of the year in Rhodopé. Though...
3. CHAPTER III.Prince Petros scarcely seemed to have overrated--though it was ever his habit to take a sufficiently rosy view of the verdict of the world on himself--the favourable impression...
4. CHAPTER IV.Prince Demetrius was not destined to see the fulfilment of his remoter hope, and to take a grandchild on his knee. In the September of this year, directly after the return of So...
5. CHAPTER V.One morning in the July of the next year Sophia and Petros were sitting at their half-past-twelve breakfast in the broad north veranda of the palace at Amandos. A big Persian ru...
6. CHAPTER VI.When Malakopf went home that night, he came near to being a victim of exultation. That delightful emotion he always eschewed, for he considered it a dangerous feeling, one that...
7. CHAPTER VII.Princess Sophia, on her return to Amandos, found the affairs of State more irksome, if possible, than ever. The innumerable petty businesses to which she had to give her attenti...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Lady Blanche had no desire to make a mountain out of a molehill, but even when she surveyed her interview with Malakopf with the coolness and sobriety of 9 a.m., she still thoug...
9. CHAPTER IX.For the next ten days Rhodopé was a pandemonium of conflicting theory, and no half-dozen folk could agree as to the authorship of this incredible Bill. Some said that Sophia had...
10. CHAPTER X.The Parliament House at Amandos, standing next the cathedral in the square, is but a small building, for its full attendance is only sixty; but for beauty of proportion and exqu...
11. CHAPTER XI.Meantime, at the Palace the large house-party who were staying with Petros for the New Year fêtes had heard the shouting, and wondered a little nervously what it meant. They kne...
12. CHAPTER XII.Prince Leonard early exhibited that same craving for diversion and excitement which had made the childhood of his mother so full of incident to her teachers. He could not, as sh...
13. CHAPTER XIII.A few days afterwards Princess Sophia herself started on her return to Rhodopé. The _Felatrune_ was to meet her at Monte Carlo, but she crossed France overland. Her original sch...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The world seemed to have stopped at home that night, and in the large room--a thing Sophia had never known before--there was no one playing. The croupiers were all at their post...