"Who is Sylvia? What is she, That all our swains commend her?""I'm dashed if I do!" said the Princess."My dear-if anyone should hear you!" groaned the Grand Duchess. "He is a most estimableyoung man, I am sure, and a very suitable match.""Call him a match, if you like; he's certainly a stick. Anyway, he's not a match for me.There's only one existing." And the Princess's eyes were lifted to the heavens, as if thebeing at whom she hinted were placed high as the sun that shone above her.The Grand Duchess was not herself ...
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"Who is Sylvia? What is she, That all our swains commend her?""I'm dashed if I do!" said the Princess."My dear-if anyone should hear you!" groaned the Grand Duchess. "He is a most estimableyoung man, I am sure, and a very suitable match.""Call him a match, if you like; he's certainly a stick. Anyway, he's not a match for me.There's only one existing." And the Princess's eyes were lifted to the heavens, as if thebeing at whom she hinted were placed high as the sun that shone above her.The Grand Duchess was not herself "Hereditary." Her dear lord and master had been that, which was perhaps the reason why such 4 stateliness as she had was almost all acquired.She dropped it sometimes, when alone with her unmarried, unmanageable youngdaughter; and to-day (in the sweet, old-fashioned garden of the house at Richmond, lent byQueen Victoria) was one of these occasions. The Grand Duchess pouted, and looked like aplump, sulky, elderly child, as she inquired what the Princess Sylvia expected in the way ofa matrimonial prize."What do I expect?" echoed the young lady. "I expect an emperor. In fact, the Emperor." Fora few moments the Grand Duchess of Eltzburg- Neuwald remained dumb. Then sheinadequately murmured, "Dear me!" Yet her demeanour did not suggest a stricken mind.She merely looked surprised, with an added expression that might signify a slow mentalreadjustment."It is really not entirely impossible," she commented at last. "But-the Emperor of Rhaetiais a very great man.""He is the only man," returned the Princess calmly. "He always has been. He is, and ever willbe. He is the Napoleon of his generation, 5 without Napoleon's meanness or brutality.Although he's not an Englishman, even you admit his virtues.""Don't speak as if I were bristling with English prejudices," scolded the Grand Duchess. "Iceased to be English when I married your father. But why did you never mention this-er-desire of yours before?"
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