Author : John Oliver Hobbes
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2015-07-13
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ISBN : 9781331329213
Excerpt from Love and the Soul Hunters Prince Paul Of Urseville-Beylestein had ordered the shutters closed of every room in his vast hotel in the Avenue Kleber, taken to his bed, turned his face to the wall. One of his beautiful friends was dead. Three months before she had been dancing in a cotillon; he could see her still, dressed as La Belle Simonetta, partner to himself, made up, inappropriately enough, as the young Raphael. It had been such a happy idea, and all her own - this fete in honor of the Old Masters. And now she was dead of typhoid fever, aged eighteen years and two days. Her tomb should be covered in lilies each day of the month for ever. He would build a marble pavilion to her memory - a pavilion where music should be perpetually played. She had been the gayest creature - a virginal embodiment of une mye du roy - always smiling, blushing, singing, or trifling, with light fingers, at the piano. She had been so very fair, so very fresh, so very helpless, so very pretty! "Poor little child! Poor little girl! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.