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.... Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CH... ...hymes, so as to prevent his interference with the castle- 4 Two Penniless Princesses building of the others, with their small hoard of pebbles and mu... ...er for Jamie by wedding some great lords in the far coun- 6 Two Penniless Princesses try than by waiting here at home.’ ‘And James will soon have a q... ...ter with Sigismund. Every one watched almost breathlessly as the big heavy Austrian, mounted on a fresh horse, and the slim Lorrainer in armour less s... ...he brothers and sisters she was willing to see no more for the sake of her Austrian Duke. Of her all that needs to be said is that she lived and died ...

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...ielded, one would say); and preparing to besiege Verdun? Clairfait and his Austrians are encompassing Thionville; darkening the North. Not Metz-land n... ...King, with his sixty thou- sand, will beleaguer Verdun; and Clairfait and Austrians press deeper in, over the Northern marches: ‘a hundred and fifty ... ...ere. He spreads out the map of this forlorn war- district: Prussians here, Austrians there; triumphant both, 24 The French Revolution - V olume Three... ...bably to this day. (Bombardement de Lille (in Hist. Parl. xx. 63-71).) The Austrian Archduchess (Queen’s Sister) will herself see red artillery fired;... ...cle! Hap- pily, in these days, he can enlist, and have himself shot by the Austrians, in an unusually satisfactory manner: for the Rights of Man.—But ... ...ng; we could see only that always when the King spoke, the sobbings of the Princesses redoubled, continued for some minutes; and that then the King be...

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...ng for Italy—like a thing underground! My father did something against the Austrians, when he was a young man. Would not I have done it? I am sure I w... ...spaper, of my father’s friends and old companions shot and murdered by the Austrians. He read it in the evening, after we had a quiet day. I thought h... ...at I want is to be an accurate singer. My music-master was a German—not an Austrian—oh, no!—I’m sure he was not. At least, I don’t think so, for I lik... ...e time I could not sleep. I laughed at myself for composing. He was not an Austrian: but when he was alive he lived in Vienna, the capi- tal of Austri... ...but when he was alive he lived in Vienna, the capi- tal of Austria. He ate Austrian bread, and why God gave him such a soul of music I never can think... ...gentleman. He said I should make money, if he took me, and grow as rich as princesses. He brought a friend to hear me, another Jew gentleman; and he w...

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...with all the other Christian princes—with Philip of France, with that dull Austrian, with him of Montserrat, with the Hospitallers, with the T emplars... ... false law, I would aid him with my sword to drive this scum of French and Austrians from his dominions, and think Palestine as well ruled by him as w... ...ay be possible to put some open rupture betwixt the Frenchman—at least the Austrian— and his allies of England, so that the breach shall be irrecon- c... ... and other personal reasons, the King of England very soon looked upon the Austrian Prince with feelings of con- tempt, which he was at no pains to co... ...incely ban- quet. Their dress seemed equally fantastic to him, many of the Austrian nobles retaining their long beards, and almost all of them wearing... ... him? My principal black slave hath taken order for the re- ception of the Princesses, the officers of my household will attend your followers, and ou...

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...ly that I, for one, was released with an injunction from the mayor and the Austrian commissary of police to go back to Rome. Zena, who let the heirs o... ...hat Dalmatian prison, thrown there without protection, having to answer to Austrians and Dalmatians, and in danger of losing my head because I went tw... ... in- troduced them into Florentine’s salon. There sparkled a bevy of stage princesses, who, having been informed, no doubt, of Frederic’s joke, were a...

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...t-Simon company went to table: it was of horse-shoe shape. The Princes and Princesses of the blood were placed at the right and at the left, according... ...ccurred since I left. During that time some adventures had happened to the Princesses, as the three illegitimate daughters of the King were called for... ... King prohib- ited very severely this familiarity. While at T rianon these Princesses took it into their heads to walk out at night and divert themsel... ...d, that he complained to the King, who made him many excuses (scolding the Princesses), but had great trouble to appease him. His anger lasted a long ... ...ought a duel against the Comtes de Rontzau, a Dane, and Schwartzenberg, an Austrian. Uzes gave himself up, but the Comte d’Albert did not do so for a ... ...s Confessor, who had been given to him by the Queen, and who was a zealous Austrian. Cardinal Portocarrero was charged with this duty, and he succeede... ...wo ecclesias- tics, with no friend near whose opinion he could consult, no Austrian at hand to confer with, and no Spaniard who was not opposed to Aus... ...ts to this Prince. He was, indeed, completely triumphant in Spain, and the Austrian party as completely routed. The Queen of Spain was sent away from ... ...was, then, quite at home on the frontier; there was nothing to do; for the Austrians, weakened by the departure of the English, were quite unable to a...

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...of Boney’s that’s fit to hold a candle to Wittgenstein. Then there are the Austrians, they are five hundred thousand if a man, and they are within ten... ...ainst any force Boney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed... ... They were six to one at Montmirail, and he scattered them like sheep. The Austrian army is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its h... ...is wife get, he urged, by making curtsies every night to a whole circle of Princesses? He left Rebecca presently to frequent these par- ties alone, re...

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...mother at his elbow. Sometimes in romantic flashes he was adored by German princesses or eloped with Russian grand-duchesses! But such fancies were ho... ...ht morning in Sep- tember that Benham came up on to the deck of the sturdy Austrian steamboat that was churning its way with a sedu- lous deliberation... ...d dishonesty, peddling trades, vendettas and war. For a while the unstable Austrian ruled this land and made a sort of or- der that the incalculable c... ...t became at last a prolonged and very picturesque tour in Switzerland, the Austrian Tyrol, North Italy, and down the Adriatic coast. Amanda had never ... ...Any one could, the Servians, the Bulgarians, the Greeks, the Italians, the Austrians. Why, they can’t even shoot! It’s just the balance of power and a...

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...hame, Humfrey,” again cried Cis, passionately. “Why, delivering imprisoned princesses always was the work of a true knight.” “Y ea; but they first def... ... masters and the lads would soon drive out of him all dreams about captive princesses and seminary priests to boot. For, Cousin Francis, I would have ... ... grammar school, where among lads of his own age, the dreams about captive princesses might be driven from him by hard blows and merry games.” “That m... ...is is only a dream out of the romances the lads love so well, of beauteous princesses to be freed, and the like.” “But the woman!” “Yea, that lies dee... ...est chance for him is that the stir of the world about him may put captive princesses out of his head.” 75 Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER CH... ...e who will wor- thily bear the sceptre, and make thee blessed at home. The Austrians make good husbands, I am told. Matthias or Albert would be a nobl... ...ak thy word. I ask thee, if thou wert free to marry, if thou wouldst be an Austrian or Lorraine duchess, or content thee with an honest English youth ...

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...y. Well, and very necessary, too; otherwise we might be where the wretched Austrians are. Instead of which—how smooth his hostess’ sapphires! “Of cour... ... his head looked hard and rather military: he would have been taken for an Austrian officer, or even a German, had it not been for the, peculiar Itali... ...ou, tout doux. Il y a unpommier doux. T rois belles princesses Vole vole mon coeur, vole! T rois belles p...

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...id. “The French are very strong, sir,” Dobbin went on. “The Rus- sians and Austrians will be a long time before they can bring their troops down. We s... ...of Boney’s that’s fit to hold a candle to Wittgenstein. Then there are the Austrians, they are five hundred thousand if a man, and they are within ten... ...ainst any force Boney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed... ... They were six to one at Montmirail, and he scattered them like sheep. The Austrian army is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its h... ...is wife get, he urged, by making curtsies every night to a whole circle of Princesses? He left Rebecca presently to frequent these par- ties alone, re... ... since the days of the prodigal Victor XIV . All the neighbouring Princes, Princesses, and Grandees were invited to the feast. Beds rose to half a cro... ...y there, though there was a reigning Duke and a Royal Highness, with their princesses, and near his Lordship was seated the beauti- ful Countess of Be...

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... she: “Oh! anything for a sea-hero.” You will find these young princes and princesses astonishingly revolutionary when they entertain brains. Now at p... ...ck- and-drake skips, and backward to his first introduction to her at some Austrian Baths among the mountains. She wanted amusement—he provided it; sh... ...ravine sprang to my father’s arm, and entreated him to be her guest in her Austrian moun- tain summer-seat. Ottilia was now her darling and her com- f... ...ment once, in the extreme heat of 226 The Adventures of Harry Richmond an Austrian highland valley , that the option of taking a header into sea-wate... ... and Prince Otto, his nephew, son of the Prince of Eisenberg, a captain of Austrian lancers, joined the margravine in Wurtemberg, and we felt immediat... ... scaled. That young Prince Otto of Eisenberg is a fine young fellow. Those Austrian cavalry regi- ments are good training-schools for the carriage of ... ...e, there is my ground of love for my Professor! I meet my equals, princes, princesses, and the man, the woman, is out of them, gone, flown! They are o... ...ow so crushing. Arms, emblems, colours, liveries, portraits of princes and princesses of the House, of this the warrior, that the seductress, burst in... ...s are the best; take my word for it, they are the best. And in the case of princesses of the Blood!—Why, look you, I happen to be suitable. It ‘s a ma...

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... Marlborough’s 14 Love and Life campaigns, and had afterwards entered the Austrian army, and fought in the Turkish war, until he had been disabled be... ...d already pledged his faith to the daughter of a Scottish gentleman in the Austrian service. This engagement was viewed by the old Lord as a trifling ... ...with Milton and Shakespeare. Betty could likewise talk German with the old Austrian maid, Nannerl, who had followed the family from Vienna; but the ac... ...aced scarlet coat of the Household troops entirely effaced the Major’s old Austrian uniform; and over it, the hair, of a light golden brown, was brush... ...d personage, who kindly satisfied her curiosity about the King, Queen, and Princesses, but with a discretion which did not diminish that blind loyalty... ...tive is there, since Faith and Hope scarce have reached the years of being princesses immured in towers.” “It must be so,” said Betty; “it would expla...

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... the Rhine, until it was taken and worked up into its present form by some Austrian poet. Who this poet was we do not know, but we do know that he was... ...ivalry and of the “Minnesingers”. More exactly, the poem is written in the Austrian dialect of the close of the twelfth century, but contains many arc... ...ome. A host dwelt there, hight Astolt, (9) who showed them the road to the Austrian land, towards Mautern (10) down the Danube. There the noble queen ... ...ry head they drew the arrows on the bows. By the Danube there lieth in the Austrian land a town that men call T ulna. (3) There she became acquaint wi... ...o had great grief through Helca’s death. Kriemhild found still seven royal princesses there, through whom all Etzel’s land was graced. For the meiny t...

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... of Austria at Geneva, Septem ber 10, 1898, occurred during Mark Twain’ s Austrian residence. The news came to him at Kaltenleutgeben, a summer resor... ...he mourning is universal and genuine, the consternation is stupefying. The Austrian Empire is being draped with black. Vienna will be a spectacle to s... ...Empress is murdered!” When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew Wha... ...o groups were the high notes. The green plumes were worn by forty or fifty Austrian generals, the group opposite them were chiefly Knights of Malta an... ...he is known to be full of common human sympathies. There are many kinds of princesses, but this kind is the most harmful of all, for wherever they go ...

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...5 Autobiographic Sketches 20 This was a manoeuvre regularly taught to the Austrian cavalry in the middle of the last century; as a ready way of openi... ...roduction, I had opportunities of seeing and hearing the queen and all the princesses; which at that time was a novelty in my life, naturally a good d... ... a stranger even to the king’s person. I had, indeed, seen most or all the princesses in the way I have mentioned above; and occasionally, in the stre... ... danc- ing with sisters—as too often occurred in those dances to which the princesses were parties—disturbed the appropri- ate interest of the scene, ... ...ches resemblances in Mr. Williams’s features to those of the Bour- bon and Austrian families. The most pathetic fact is that of the idiocy common to t...

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...e of a High Place, Father Simeon Delmar was shown a stone, and told it was the throne of some well-descended lady. How exactly parallel is this with E... ... at the ceremony, which was primitively simple. The two Mrs. Stevensons and Mr. Osbourne, along with Paaaeua, his wife, and an adopted child of theirs... ... at Atuona, Paaaeua would have held himself bound to establish us upon his land, and to set apart young men for our service, and trees for our support... ...ese disasters reached, after great hardships, the isle of Hiva-oa. Some of these men vowed they would never again confront the chances of the sea; but...

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...hou- sand men as immediate reinforcements for the armies then fighting the Austrians in Italy, the Prussians in Germany, and menaced in Switzerland by... ...ut it is I who bring you these female citizens; they’ll pay like ci-devant princesses, therefore—” “Therefore, we’ll drink a glass of wine together pr...

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...re he was twelve. Before he was twenty he was learning outpost duty in the Austrian frontier cavalry. He served in the Peninsula, served in Canada, se... ...black in their minds. Well, and Englishmen have been known to marry Indian princesses: some have a liking for negresses. There are Nubians rather pret... ...a wider grasp, I suppose.” He pursed his month, pondering. “No; and in the Austrian ser- vice, too; generals of cavalry are left to whistle for an ind...

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...they fill me with a kind of rabbia. Last summer, at Carlsbad, there was an Austrian count, with enormous estates and some great office at court. He wa... ...knew no one but her washerwoman, and now I am told that the cards of Roman princesses are to be seen on her table. She is evidently determined to play... ..., and you won’t get them for nothing! You dine 188 Roderick Hudson at the Austrian Embassy, and that Frenchman is to pow- der your hair. You ‘re to c... ...the proudest members of the European aristoc- racy were present—duchesses, princesses, countesses, and others distinguished by similar titles. But for...

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...olours, are moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the B... ...t the head of each coffin rises a slab, with a gilded inscription; for the princesses, the slab is simple, not unlike our own monumental stones. The h...

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...ew had accompanied the son of the writer, Captain de Croisnel, on board an Austrian boat out of the East, and was lying in V enice under a return- att... ...s, and then resumed the trot, apparently in search of fresh ammunition. An Austrian sentinel looked on passively, and a police inspector peeringly. Th... ...nd spirit, their port and their beauty, decree unto themselves the rank of princesses among women, before our world has tried their claim to it. She h... ... I remember in the year of Revolution there was danger of a rising in some Austrian city, and a colonel of a regiment commanded his band to play. The ... ... their fate, only in degree less inhuman than that of Hellenic and T rojan princesses offered up to the Gods, or pretty slaves to the dealers. Their a... ...il ‘s right. It ‘s as well we should know something about the Prussian and Austrian cavalry, and if our aristocracy won’t go abroad to study cavalry, ...

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...nquering them one by one, like the lovers in fairy tales, who to win their princesses overcome ever new enchantments, the work remains incomplete; it ... ...s. All honor to those we left there!” and the old man lifted his hat. “The Austrians were amazed at the dash of it.—The Emperor made the man you saw a...

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...rtland Penfield last ambassador ofthe United States of America to the late Austrian Empire, this old timetale is gratefully inscribed in memory of the... ...ard, simply. “I don’t know much about fairy tales.” “They are mostly about princesses,” murmured Mrs. Travers. Lingard didn’t quite hear. He bent his ...

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...ty is Anne of Austria, Queen of France—that is to say, one of the greatest princesses in the world.” “She is not the less guilty, Monsieur Duke! The m... ...tfit.” “Handsome, well-bred, noble lord as you are, my dear Athos, neither princesses nor queens would be secure from 311 Alexandre Dumas your amorou... ...ened France triumphed, all his influence would be lost. Spanish policy and Austrian policy would have their repre- sentatives in the cabinet of the Lo...

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...hat needlewoman, notwithstanding her low condition, had ac- quaintances in the highest rank; she called the grandest la- dies of the court her friend,... ...im immediately.” “Sir, I obey with pleasure, if her majesty will permit me to depart.” “Go, Monsieur de Bragelonne,” said the queen, “and rest assured... ... to the people and had therefore nothing to fear, since the people had nothing more just then to ask for. The return, also, of the conqueror of Lens w...

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...-de-Boeuf; so that ‘more than fifty fall sick, and ten die. ’ Mesdames the Princesses alone wait at the loath- some sick-bed; impelled by filial piety... ...lone wait at the loath- some sick-bed; impelled by filial piety. The three Princesses, Graille, Chiffe, Coche (Rag, Snip, Pig, as he was wont to name ... ...Fortune and dexterity brought him to the harpsichord of Mesdames, our good Princesses Loque, Graille and Sisterhood. Still better, Paris Duvernier, th... ...lances, shalt thrill rough bosoms, whole steel battalions, and persuade an Austrian Kaiser,—pike and helm lie provided for thee in due season; and, al... ...mmand, might lie Counter-Revolution itself, sale to Exiled Princes and the Austrian Kaiser: treacherous Aristocrats hoodwinking the small insight of u... ...rehension, with mutual exasperation. It was but in these days that certain Austrian troops, march- ing peaceably across an angle of this region, seeme... ...ps disdainfully express the same in words, and ‘soon after fly over to the Austrians.’ So that when it here as elsewhere comes to the question of Arre... ...ong way, their ploughshares into swords. Is there not what we may call an ‘Austrian Committee, ’ Comite Autrichein, sitting daily and nightly in the T... ...ng; we could see only that always when the King spoke, the sobbings of the Princesses redoubled, continued for some minutes; and that then the King be...

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...ress Josephine, at Malmaison (whom we loved a thousand times more than her Austrian successor, a sandy-haired woman, between ourselves, with an odious... ...—an excellent, gentle creature, quite unlike her husband—stood up with the Austrian ambassador. Besides, the famous artists Baron Gros, David and Nich... ...he crowd, in which stood Ney, Murat, Lannes, the Prince of Wagram, and the Austrian ambassador, we showed to the beau monde of the French capital, I f... ...Majesty should know the time,” replied Marie Antoinette, archly, and in an Austrian accent; “is not my Royal Louis the first watchmaker in his empire?... ... mixed up in the wondrous liquor, and gentle visions of bygone princes and princesses look blandly down on us from the cloudy perfume of the pipe. Do ... ...ay Saracens, and had more than one direct offer of marriage made to him by princesses, countesses, and noble ladies possessing both charms and money, ... ...ques looked younger than ever we saw him—ay, as young as when he faced the Austrian cannon at V almy and scattered their squadrons at Gemappes. “Ratio... ...ren; but the Princes of Joinville, Aumale, and Montpensier (married to the Princesses Januaria and Februaria, of Brazil, and the Princess of the Unite... ... cracking a whip; there are a dozen Miss Woolfords, who appear like Polish princesses, Dihannas, Sultannas, Cachuchas, and heaven knows what! There’s ...

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...an gave up the ghost and bequeathed him little besides a law-suit with the Austrian Government, and the care of Carinthia Jane, the second child of th... ...he girl was born, and for the reason of her first seeing the light in that Austrian province, she was chris- tened Carinthia Jane. She was her old fat... ...sed him, so that he would not have been unwilling to see Chillon enter the Austrian service, which the young man was inclined for, subsequent to his r... ...ree in the forest, and was trimmed with silver like dew-drops: one in your Austrian white, dragon de Boheme, if I caught his French rightly. Others as... ...eetwood. The half-dozen lines were cordial, breathing of their walk in the Austrian highlands, and naming a renowned city hotel for dinner that day, t... ... one to run for a trifle. His pride is pretty well a match for princes and princesses. All the same, he shakes in his shoes before her, durst hardly s...

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...-de-Boeuf; so that ‘more than fifty fall sick, and ten die. ’ Mesdames the Princesses alone wait at the loathsome sick-bed; impelled by filial piety. ... ... alone wait at the loathsome sick-bed; impelled by filial piety. The three Princesses, Graille, Chiffe, Coche (Rag, Snip, Pig, as he was wont to name ... ...Fortune and dexterity brought him to the harpsichord of Mesdames, our good Princesses Loque, Graille and Sisterhood. Still better, Paris Duvernier, th... ...lances, shalt thrill rough bosoms, whole steel battalions, and persuade an Austrian Kaiser,— pike and helm lie provided for thee in due season; and, a...

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...a phantom world—in which he can be hero—of horses ridden and lace worn and princesses res- cued and won. He wants pictures of funny slums, and enter- ... ...e to send. Germany and Switzerland send only a few. The South European and Austrian supply is not as abundant as it was. There may come a time when Eu...

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... in any way. She was in 486 Anna Karenina love with all the new princes and princesses who married into the imperial family; she had been in love wit... ... that had occurred at his school. Facing him sat a middle aged officer in the Austrian military jacket of the Guards uniform. He was listening with a s...