. Seven years at the Prussian court. GRAFIN CECILE VON KEYSERLING The Crown Prince and Princess was a fairly big one, but most of the upstairs partof it was uncarpeted and very scantily furnished;there were very few servants, and the meals wereof the plainest and simplest kind. But both the Crown Prince and Princess andthe Princess Margarethe enjoyed themselves verythoroughly. There was no ceremony of any sort. It was a brother of Fraulein von Trothas wholeft his duty at the front and went home in a Taubeto see his father, v/ho was ill, for which offence hegot into great trouble. The Countess
. Seven years at the Prussian court. GRAFIN CECILE VON KEYSERLING The Crown Prince and Princess was a fairly big one, but most of the upstairs partof it was uncarpeted and very scantily furnished;there were very few servants, and the meals wereof the plainest and simplest kind. But both the Crown Prince and Princess andthe Princess Margarethe enjoyed themselves verythoroughly. There was no ceremony of any sort. It was a brother of Fraulein von Trothas wholeft his duty at the front and went home in a Taubeto see his father, v/ho was ill, for which offence hegot into great trouble. The Countess Cecile Keyserling was an extremelypleasant, good-hearted lady, and I dare say thereare some in England to-day who have kindly recol-lections of her. I know that at the outbreak ofwar, when the greater portion of the English popula-tion was running away from Berlin as quickly aspossible, and when it was a case of each for himselfor herself, the Countess helped several Englishgirls to get away, and in some instances she ad-vanced them
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