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The princess and I beca to her code, but, in the historic words of the

drug clerk, I was soood She honored me with a frank,

disinterested friendship, which still exists I have yet a souvenirs of diploet up at dawn and ride around the lake, so like sixteen

miles She was almost as reckless a rider as myself She was truly a

famous rider, and a woraceful She was, in fact, youthful and charnificent black eyes I ever beheld in a Teutonic head; witty,

besides, and a songstress of no ordinary talent If I had been in love

with her--which I solemnly voas not!--I should have called her

beautiful and exhausted my store of complimentary adjectives

The basic cause of all this turmoil, about which I am to spin my

narrative, lay in her education I hold that a German princess should

never be educated save as a German By this I o beyond German literature, German history,

German veneration of laws, German manners and Gerarde had been educated in England and

France, which si, or, I should say, to be exact,

co

She possessed a healthy conte Havingpeople, she