[Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy by Charles Major]@TWC D-Link bookYolanda: Maid of Burgundy CHAPTER XII 27/38
I cannot present you, but I will see that Twonette brings about the meeting.
I tell you, as I have already told Sir Karl, that it is said I resemble this princess, so you must not mistake her for me." When Max told me of this offer I wondered if the girl had been testing him, and a light dawned on me concerning her motives. "I did not come to woo her," answered Max, "though she may have been a part of my reason for coming.
I knew that she was affianced to the Dauphin of France.
Her beauty and goodness were known to me through letters of my Lord d'Hymbercourt, written to my dear old friend Karl. Because of certain transactions, of which you do not know and of which I may not speak, I esteemed her for a time above all women, though I had never seen her.
I still esteem her, but--but the other is all past now, Fraeulein, and I do not wish to meet the princess, though the honor would be far beyond my deserts." "Why do you not wish to meet her ?" asked Yolanda, with an air of pleasure.
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