And assuredly if he does not marry his princess, he will not live happy, and if she does not marry the prince, she will live in no beautiful palace.

The sentinels at the palace gate were closely questioned as to whether they had not seen a princess coming out; but they answered they had seen no one except a shabbily dressed girl, who appeared to be a peasant rather than a young lady.

A few minutes later Steinmetz, presenting himself at the door of the little drawing-room attached to Etta's suite of rooms, found the princess in a matchless tea-gown waiting beside a table laden with silver tea appliances.

"Where do you live?" asked the princess.

He hopes that his dear prince will waive ceremony and bring his charming princess to dine quite en famille at his little pied à terre in the Champs Élysées.

I inherited here an estate and am able to settlethen I met the princess, and now I love hershe is everything in this world to me.

It was thy boast thou once did love a princess, now a slave, I boasted that to thy behest

"What have you done?" cried the princess.

He had lingered in the happy valley, or kingdom of Micomicon, but the carriage was before the doorthe golden chariot had come to bear away the beautiful princess.

By leaving our present station we may lose the princess, but cannot hope to regain Pekuah.

"But if I am at one end of the long enfilade of rooms taking the Comtesse de Paris to her seat and another princess (Joinville or Chartres) should arrive; what has to be done?" "Your husband must always be at the door with his chef de cabinet, who will replace him while he takes the princess to her place.

She had never yet been as much alone as she should have liked to be, and she could not imagine that she might possibly become tired of playing the princess in the tower for months together, with only the company of one learned old ecclesiastic as her sole diversion.

In those soaring days, let us hope that you played the villain with a swagger, or being cast in a softer role, that you won a pink and fluffy princess before the play was done.

The ship in which Antigonus carried the infant princess out to sea was driven by a storm upon the coast of Bohemia, the very kingdom of the good king Polixenes.

Yet hard-hearted he, in such a case, So cowardly to save himself by flight, And leave so brave a princess to the spoil.

To this the king agreed, but the ring begged the princess not to give him directly to the enchanter, but to let him fall on the floor.

She must be handsome, prudent, gentle, intellectual, fruitful, wealthy, and of high extraction; and thus I do not know a single princess in Europe calculated to satisfy my idea of feminine perfection.

An inquisitive look discovered the princess sitting slightly forward and intently watching the auctioneer.

The allowance of Marie Antoinette was fixed at no higher amount than six thousand francs a month; and of this small sum, according to a report which, in the course of the autumn, Mercy made to the empress, not a single crown really reached the princess for her private use.[10]

She will not be led a captive princess up the Capitoline Hill.

Yesterday I despatched an envoy with tributary presents to demand a princess in marriage; but know not if the Emperor will ratify the engagement with the customary oaths.

I tell you, as I have already told Sir Karl, that it is said I resemble this princess, so you must not mistake her for me.

Hasten, sir, to send the princess on her way! EMPEROR.

His pretensions are encouraged, but learning by his magic that the Hypotofan monarch has been freed from the power of his spells, he persuades the princess to return to Ijaveo with him in hopes of regaining her kingdom.

The king prescribes that each lover shall then lead his forces in mortal battle and that the victor shall wed the princess.