Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
seating himself at dinner, gave q despairing

seating himself ct dinner, gave despairing
| sigh. There seemed to him the most studied
kind of mischief In this entire proc .ding.
But, OF course, her entrance into the king
dom, after so long an absence, must be
| greeted with due and prompt honors. As
| for honors military, these, at such an hour,
were next to impossible. A cortege of royal
| coaches, and fairly copious escort the an
noyed Clarimond soon caused to be pre-
pared. But as consequence of what she
chose to consider his notifying rudeness,
the Princess was driven to the palace in one
OF her most supercilious furies.
At first, during the homeward drive, she
would scarcely speak to her son. Beside
her sat beautiful young girl of q very pro-
nopneed blonde type, named Blanca d. Este,
allied to the illustrious race who bear that
name The Princess had recently induced this
young lady to become her chief companion,
and with that motive it was only too plain.
In one of her recent letters to Clarimond
she had openly written: 81 have added to
my household the most charming of girls,
Blanca d. Este. In lineage she is your
equal, for her blood is not merely royal but
very ancient as we'll should love to see
her seated at your side on the throne Of
Saltravia; and it is high time you married,
as you must surely admit.
coerced or eounselled on matrimonial ques-
tions. He had never yet seen the woman
whom he would have taken any great Joy
In making his wife, but he had seen four or
i've who might, even to his fastidious taste,
have worn the crown of queenly consors
With satisfying distinction.
As he now let his eye rest on Blanca d
Estes plump yet dignifed figure and
creamy, pink-and-white face, he felt no stir
OF interest whatever. She was undoubtedly
handsome girl, but behind such look as
hers there could not lie the intelligence
which alone makes woman's beauty other
wise than mere pastime OF the senses to
meni and our young King was
man who had never shown his
senses very much respect, fact
which something in the silyery gray of his
eyes and in the lines of his clear-moulded
chin went strongly to prove. Meanwhile,
as the great state carriage rolled onward
through the mellow summer darkness, and
by the rays of the outside lamps which
illumed it he could distinctly view this
young Italian lady, he told himself, almost
with weariness, that if his mother should
insist and importune after thai fashion Of
doing both in which she so notably eIcelled,
he might yield t. her and let the cherished
nuptials really take place.
The Princess of Brindisi was o woman
who rarely kept silens even from sulkiness,
longer than ten minutes at a time. Before
the journey had been half accomplished
she broke in upon civil commonplace
which her son was addressing to Blanca
So filled with bitterness were her words
that Bianca's mild wa1en eyelids lowered
themselves as if in gentle sorrow.
The King heard and bit his lips 'T
might have had larger guard Of soldiers to
greet you. he said, ''if your coming had
not been 50 precipitste and unexpected"
"Precipitatel Unexpectedw echoed the
Princess. with the tips of her lips "And
Q King speaks that way to his motherl Ono
might fancy, Clarimond, that some member
Of the petite noblesse-no, of even the COM
mon, vulgar herd itself lately raised to
power had presented this piteous sxcussF'
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