. The Saturday evening post. finest in , and he enjoyed throwing itopen. Courtly and handsome, with his tall,welKproportioned figure, he stood at thehead of his long staircase alone to receivehis guests, of whom just enough to fill thelarge rooms without crowding were each one of us came up and curtsied, hisdelighted air and words as well as his grace-ful bow and cordial handshake gave onethe sensation of being the most welcome ofhis guests. For some of us the old manfound a pretty compliment to pay on ourgowns. Every woman was glad to haveworn her best. The Empress Mot
. The Saturday evening post. finest in , and he enjoyed throwing itopen. Courtly and handsome, with his tall,welKproportioned figure, he stood at thehead of his long staircase alone to receivehis guests, of whom just enough to fill thelarge rooms without crowding were each one of us came up and curtsied, hisdelighted air and words as well as his grace-ful bow and cordial handshake gave onethe sensation of being the most welcome ofhis guests. For some of us the old manfound a pretty compliment to pay on ourgowns. Every woman was glad to haveworn her best. The Empress Mother came to her uncles;the Emperor and his wife were also of thisparty—a rare honor, for during the four-teen years between my marriage and theGreat War I do not think they gracedfunctions given in the capital more thanfive or six times. All the grand dukes andgrand duchesses came, of course. Beyondthe members of the imperial family and themembers of their courts actually in attend-ance on them, there was no guest who was. One .tide of the Castle at Bouromka not of the gay ultra-smart set of youngmarried dancers, with the best of the crackguard regiments officers. The floor wasperfection, the orchestra the best in thecapital. My husband, being attached tothe Crown Prince, was living at the WinterPalace and was to arrive with the court; soI went to this party alone, and found alarge number of the guests already as-sembled. Everyone had to be there beforethe imperial family and the Crown Princemade their appearance. The German Em-bassy came in a mass. They were the onlydiplomats invited. Only the Ambassadorand Count Liittvitz, the military attache,were married men. Old Countess Alvens-leben was said to be an intimate friend ofthe German Kaiser. She was quite old andplain, dressed atrociously, was very cut anddried in her manner, and did everything byrule. She arranged her hair stiffly with agreen erection on top which we disrespect-ful youngsters called a tennis net, and shehad
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