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14 HER ROYAL LOVER. was bold like the regard of the eagle which soars toward the highest regions of heaven. Then, when with dilated pupils, she directed her regard on some one, it produced the effect of an electric shock. Then, suddenly, a delicious smile produced on her face a mutinous and mischievous expression, similar to that of the roguish shepards of Tragonard and of Watteau, and displayed, through lips fresh as the petals of the rose, teeth of snowy whiteness. In this woman of a sculptural and pleasing form, that the satin of her somewhat tight-fitting robe charmingly molded, all was harmonious, from the dainty feet imprisoned in fine scarlet shoes, to her admirably gloved hands, whose delicate childish wrist was inclosed in a superb diamond bracelet that a queen would not have disdained. This feminine apparition, truly ravishing, excited a spirit of rivalry in all; the old men, bedizened with decorations, whose hanging lips sought to dis- simulate if under an amiable smile; were re- animated, and revivified by the sight of her. The young and vivacious aides-de-camp, with all the advantages with which nature had endowed them, exerted themselves to attract the attention of this star of the feée. The Count de Leerkopf, the master of ceremonies, was himself subjugated, while the countess, his wife, a coquette approaching nearly her fiftieth year, without, however, losing any of her pretentions to youth and beauty, had, with great acrimony, elevated high her head when the Prince of Theiss, one of the king’s cousins, had exclaimed with en- thusiasm, on showing her Madame de Mineleko: “What a pretty woman!” “Goodness! they speak of nothing but her this Eomicbooks (€| @)