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Chapter 9 THE ROSE GARDEN

Word Count: 1287    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

autumn had begun to blow through its bowers, it was over-clambered with late-blooming flowers. Its bowers were creeper-tan

sudden fancy to a young man, should find her way where

ther have hied him straight back to old Dessauer with his news. More than anyth

Margaret had quit

l have lodged you in a dungeon cell for tha

tary turned towards her the blank look of one whose thoughts have

do not practise these outland peculiarities before my brothers. Either of them might look with prejudice upon such customs being observed generally throughout the city. I came back chiefly to wa

sufficiently from his reveries upon the interview in the s

ught. "A Princess of Courtland is no such mighty thing-and why should I

he Princess took the young man's hand and read his for

for a man," she said; "why

grip," said the secret

f Muscovy, I mean. He is a great fencer, and also desires to be a great friend of mine. He would give something to be sitting here teaching me how they take hands and bid each o

do his part. If the Princess of Courtland chose to amuse herself with him, well, it was harmless on either side-

et, after certain experiments; "but tell me, since you say that we are to be friends, and I have admitted your p

king love, yet a vein of Baltic practicality

" said the secretary carefully; "but I do not usually

re, indeed-gra

ncess. "I seem to have heard that name somewher

" said the secretary, grilling within a

is time. I am sure he did not know. And the estates-a little involved, doubtless,

within he was saying, "God help me! I get deeper and deeper. What a whirling chaos a single lie leads one into! Heaven give me speedy succour out of this!"

to strike the Princes

t a pupil at love!" Then aloud she said, "You are

he deceitful Count, pickin

e Princess rang out

of the house of Courtland, and we are accustomed to say what we think-the women of us especially. And sooner than carry out this wretched contract and marry the Prince Wasp, I will do even as I said to my brother, I will

ry impulsive persons. It reached the ears of a gay young fashionable, who had just dismounted at the gate

r this is according to the best traditions of Plassenburg!" And taking his face b

say to that! I will show them that Margaret of Courtland c

dazed by the rapid succession of emotions, Johann the Secretary stepped out of the green gloom of the y

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Contents

Chapter 1 THE HALL OF THE GUARD Chapter 2 THE BAITING OF THE SPARHAWK Chapter 3 JOAN DRAWS FIRST BLOOD Chapter 4 THE COZENING OF THE AMBASSADOR Chapter 5 JOHANN THE SECRETARY Chapter 6 AN AMBASSADOR'S AMBASSADOR Chapter 7 H.R.H. THE PRINCESS IMPETUOSITY Chapter 8 JOHANN IN THE SUMMER PALACE Chapter 9 THE ROSE GARDEN Chapter 10 PRINCE WASP Chapter 11 THE KISS OF THE PRINCESS MARGARET
Chapter 12 JOAN FORSWEARS THE SWORD
Chapter 13 THE SPARHAWK IN THE TOILS
Chapter 14 AT THE HIGH ALTAR
Chapter 15 WHAT JOAN LEFT BEHIND
Chapter 16 PRINCE WASP'S COMPACT
Chapter 17 WOMAN'S WILFULNESS
Chapter 18 CAPTAINS BORIS AND JORIAN PROMOTE PEACE
Chapter 19 JOAN STANDS WITHIN HER DANGER
Chapter 20 THE CHIEF CAPTAIN'S TREACHERY
Chapter 21 ISLE RUGEN
Chapter 22 THE HOUSE ON THE DUNES
Chapter 23 THE FACE THAT LOOKED INTO JOAN'S
Chapter 24 THE SECRET OF THERESA VON LYNAR
Chapter 25 BORNE ON THE GREAT WAVE
Chapter 26 THE GIRL BENEATH THE LAMP
Chapter 27 WIFE AND PRIEST
Chapter 28 THE RED LION FLIES AT KERNSBERG
Chapter 29 THE GREETING OF THE PRINCESS MARGARET
Chapter 30 LOVE'S CLEAR EYE
Chapter 31 THE ROYAL MINX
Chapter 32 THE PRINCESS MARGARET IS IN A HURRY
Chapter 33 A WEDDING WITHOUT A BRIDEGROOM
Chapter 34 LITTLE JOHANNES RODE
Chapter 35 A PERILOUS HONEYMOON
Chapter 36 THE BLACK DEATH
Chapter 37 THE DROPPING OF A CLOAK
Chapter 38 THE RETURN OF THE BRIDE
Chapter 39 PRINCE WASP STINGS
Chapter 40 THE LOVES OF PRIEST AND WIFE
Chapter 41 THERESA KEEPS TROTH
Chapter 42 THE WORDLESS MAN TAKES A PRISONER
Chapter 43 TO THE RESCUE
Chapter 44 THE UKRAINE CROSS
Chapter 45 THE TRUTH-SPEAKING OF BORIS AND JORIAN
Chapter 46 THE FEAR THAT IS IN LOVE
Chapter 47 THE BROKEN BOND
Chapter 48 JOAN GOVERNS THE CITY
Chapter 49 THE WOOING OF BORIS AND JORIAN
Chapter 50 THE DIN OF BATTLE
Chapter 51 THERESA'S TREACHERY
Chapter 52 THE MARGRAF'S POWDER CHESTS
Chapter 53 THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH VISIBLE
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