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Arms and the Woman

CHAPTER XIV
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One of these is the duty a sovereign owes to the people.

The woman in me wishes to follow your fortunes, though they carry her to the ends of the world; but the sovereign sees but one path--honor and duty.

What is one human heart to a hundred thousand?
A grain of sand.

Herr, let mine be broken; I shall not murmur.

Alas! to be a princess, a puppet in this tinsel show of kings and queens! It is my word and the King's will which have made my happiness an impossibility.


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