. The Princess Margarethe . was a certain room inthe palace where the kingand queen used to retire latein the afternoon when mostof the duties of the daywere over. Here for a timethey would forget their cares and try to behappy in each others society. The kinghad never lost the first love he had feltfor the beautiful girl he had raised to thethrone, and to that love was added an ad-miration for her strength of mind and for hertalents that daily increased. She not onlywas his adviser but his supporter as well, forthere were times when he seemed suddenlyto lose courage and faith in himself and i
. The Princess Margarethe . was a certain room inthe palace where the kingand queen used to retire latein the afternoon when mostof the duties of the daywere over. Here for a timethey would forget their cares and try to behappy in each others society. The kinghad never lost the first love he had feltfor the beautiful girl he had raised to thethrone, and to that love was added an ad-miration for her strength of mind and for hertalents that daily increased. She not onlywas his adviser but his supporter as well, forthere were times when he seemed suddenlyto lose courage and faith in himself and inhis work. At these times the dauntless spiritof Oueen Louisa would lift him from his fw depression and inspire him with new used to think that but for her all theplans he had made would fail and that he 96. A STATELY OLD MAN ENTERED DRESSED IN THE RED COPEOF A CARDINAL. ///c Princess Margarethe. never would have strength enough to con-ceive and carry out new ones. One afternoon, after a long and tryingday, during which he had received news offresh atrocities of Prince Fritz, he came tothis room and threw himself on the couch infront of the great wood fire that blazed andcrackled on the hearth. The room wassmaller than most of the rooms in the pal-ace ; it was at the top of one of the circulartowers and was perfectly round. Its broadwindows looked out on the city spread be-fore it like a panorama. The walls were covered with tapestriespicturing valiant deeds of some of the kingsof Schlafenland. One represented the nobleGuthrun, founder of the royal line, leadinghis victorious troops against the Huns;another, Otto the Dauntless, fighting handto hand with the pitiless Thorold, whose loveof war was so great that nearly the whole ofhis life was spent amid scenes of slaughter, andwhose knotted
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