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The Illustrious Prince

CHAPTER XXIII
7/23

A visit to the country seems to me most delightful.

They tell me, too, that your spring gardens are wonderful.

What London suffers from, I think, at this time of the year, is a lack of flowers.

We want something to remind us that the spring is coming, besides these occasional gleams of blue sky and very occasional bursts of sunshine." "You are a sentimentalist, Prince," she declared, smiling.
"No, I think not," he answered seriously.

"I love all beautiful things.
I think that there are many men as well as women who are like that.
Shall I be very rude and say that in the matter of climate and flowers one grows, perhaps, to expect a little more in my own country." An uncontrollable impulse moved her.


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