Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 27: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 19 long and silky, which he turned up swaggeringly between his long slender fingers, the young re- frendary, whose carriage was rather that of an officer of the guard than an advocate, was sure of being able to, like his father, the Chief of the Su- preme Tribunal of the Residence (a common name given to the capitol), to aspire one day to the most elevated positions of the magistracy. An only son, he was rich—a great deal richer than most of the princes, counts and_ bar- ons, who, transported by the harmonious sounds of the orchestra, were whirling at this moment in the ball-room of this royalty of the third order. However, in the minor as in the greater courts of continental Europe, when one is not noble, one is almost a pariah in society; so wills the vain and narrow minds of these little kingdoms where Poverty & Co. are admitted with any little whatsoever, while if hazard has not presided to ennoble their birth, the young people of the most meritorious families see themselves often refused invitations to balls of the meanest of princelings. So, this young man, of a great intelligence, capa- ble of attaining to the highest social positions, having neither parchment nor coat of arms, was re- jected by the poor but noble family of Heiligenthal, who sacrificed thus to their pride the assured hap- piness of Walpurga. Now if, this evening, the two young people could abandon themselves without restraint to the pleasures of the dance, they owed it to Aunt Mohrenberg, a half-blind dowager, who chaperoned Walpurga, whose parents were absent, restrained by a slight indisposition. Madame Haller, mother of the handsome Conrad, was the only daughter of the court pharmacist, GComicbooks (GE Q)