15/30 See, it enters." As she spoke, up the hall advanced the embassy. At the head of it walked a young man, tall, dark, handsome and commanding, whose aspect seemed in some way to be familiar to me. He was richly clothed in a purple cloak and wore upon his head a golden circlet that suggested royal rank. Yva continued in her monotonous voice: "Comes the son of the King of the confederated Nations, the Prince who will be king. |