Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . ppreciated by all this was a row of lady-apple trees in full fruit, andthe group was finished off, first by a low cordon of grape-covered vines, and then by a border of straw^berry plants,whereon strawberries as big as plovers eggs gleamed likehuofe rubies. None of the little fruit-trees was more than afoot high, and the effect produced by this little orchard, where-from at the end of the dinner everybody was able to pluckhis or her dessert, was indescri
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . ppreciated by all this was a row of lady-apple trees in full fruit, andthe group was finished off, first by a low cordon of grape-covered vines, and then by a border of straw^berry plants,whereon strawberries as big as plovers eggs gleamed likehuofe rubies. None of the little fruit-trees was more than afoot high, and the effect produced by this little orchard, where-from at the end of the dinner everybody was able to pluckhis or her dessert, was indescribable. In more respects than table luxuries is His Majesty ex-travaofant in his tastes, and his civil-list is therefore in aperpetual and chronic state of deficit. As King of Prussia 346 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. the Emperor receives 16,000,000 marks (^4,000,000), and thesum at his disposal as ruler of the Empire is much moremodest. His annual expenses, however, are reckoned asclose upon 25,000,000 marks (^6,250,000). Like the late Kino- Ludwig- of Bavaria he is fond ofbuilding new castles and of spending vast sums of money. THE SUMMER RESIDENCE OF THE EMPEROR. in repairing old ones. Aside from the prospective expen-ditures upon the Emperors new estate in the Reichsland andthe cost of importing log houses and the like from Norway,the Emperor is having the residence at Coblentz and thecastle on the Stolzenfels repaired and elaborately im-proved. Even the Empresss dresses are selected, nay, often de- THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF GERMANY. 347 signed, by this restless young Monarch, who seems to be un-able to refrain from meddling with everything and must, however, acknowledge that on one occasion I wascompelled to admire the exquisite taste which he had displayedin a fancy costume which he had caused to be made from hisminute directions for his wife, and which the latter wore at aball in Potsdam some time after her marriage. It was meantto represent a Sea-Spirit, and was compose
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