[The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath]@TWC D-Link bookThe Puppet Crown CHAPTER IV 9/35
As for me, I prefer Kentucky, where every man is a colonel, and you never make a mistake.
And these kingdoms!" He indulged in subdued laughter.
"They are always like comic operas.
I find myself looking around every moment for the merry villagers so happy and so gay (at fifteen dollars the week), the eternal innkeeper and the perennial soubrette his daughter, the low comedian and the self-conscious tenor. Heigho! and not a soul in Bleiberg knows me, nor cares. "I'd rather talk five minutes to a pretty woman than eat stuffed pheasants the year around, and the stuffed pheasant is about all Bleiberg can boast of.
Well, here goes for a voyage of discovery;" and he passed down the stone steps to the pier, quite unconscious of the admiring glances of the women who fluttered back and forth on the wide balconies above. It was four o'clock in the afternoon; a fresh wind redolent of pine and resin blew across the lake.
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