. The Saturday evening post. Ji Stop In the Steppe* questions. I had not quite finishedanswering when a huge negro,dressed in a multi-colored Venetiancostume of the sixteenth or seven-teenth century, opened the door toan inner room and let out a ladywho had finished her audience. The master of ceremonies es-corted me to the door and theblack, decorative, smiling door-keeper threw it open in I had made my best curtsyat the door, and another as I kissedthe Empress small hand, all cere-mony seemed at an end. TheEmpress wore but two rings, agreat beautiful polished ruby andher wedding
. The Saturday evening post. Ji Stop In the Steppe* questions. I had not quite finishedanswering when a huge negro,dressed in a multi-colored Venetiancostume of the sixteenth or seven-teenth century, opened the door toan inner room and let out a ladywho had finished her audience. The master of ceremonies es-corted me to the door and theblack, decorative, smiling door-keeper threw it open in I had made my best curtsyat the door, and another as I kissedthe Empress small hand, all cere-mony seemed at an end. TheEmpress wore but two rings, agreat beautiful polished ruby andher wedding ring. Over her simpleblack gown she wore two finestrings of pearls. Afterward I wastold these were some pearls Alex-ander III had personally given hiswife, which she wore constantly inpreference to the many strings oflarger pearls she owned. HI
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