But they deceived nobody; they all had that nimble brain, and that unconscious swagger of importance and success which stamps the American in every country.

Prince Hugo, in his old brown suit, came and went quietly among them.
"The genuine article!" Jean declared loudly.

"There is something royal in his hospitality! He lays all Munich at Lucy's feet, as if it were his own estate, and the museums and palaces were the furniture of his house.

That homely simplicity of his is tremendously fine, if she could understand it!" The homely genuineness had its effect even upon Lucy.

The carriage which he brought to drive them to Isar-anen was scaly with age, but the crest upon it was the noblest in Bavaria; in the cabinet of portraits of ancient beauties in the royal palace he showed her indifferently two or three of his aunts and grandmothers, and in the historical picture of the anointing of the great Charlemagne, one of his ancestors, stout and good-humored as Hugo himself, supported the emperor.
"The pudgy little man," said Jean one day, "somehow belongs to the old world of knights and crusaders--Sintram and his companions.