Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 221: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 213 — CHAPTER XXX. A FEEBLE REED. The Empress of Hindostan arrived on the day and hour appointed. The inhabitants of the little residence came in crowds to the depot to see the il- lustrious travelers disembark. All the court carriages, freshly varnished, pre- sented quite a fine appearance at the reception of the extremely rich Hindoos. The king, in.a royal equipage, surrounded by his children, followed by the nobility of the kingdom, went to meet his mother-in-law. The special train which was to bring the imperial family did not keep them waiting; it was signaled at the regular hour, and soon after, to the deafen- ing accompaniment of whistles, the engine throwing jets of smoke and vapor, made its entrance in the depot. The locomotive had hardly stopped before the King of Thessaly advanced, gravely and majes- tically, toward the carriage which contained these eminent personages. As soon as the door was opened, and the foot-board was lowered, the sover- eign and the young princess entered the royal carriage. After having saluted the Empress of Hindostan and ner suite, the king, still solemn, de- scended the first and hastened to offer his hand to the sovereign. Short, stout and squatty, wearing her past sixty years well, she was entirely clothed in black. Upon her head she wore under her bonnet of English crape, a widow’s cap in the fashion of a comicbooks:com