[The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Great Impersonation CHAPTER XIX 11/18
It is true that these are the days of your relaxation.
Still, there is the Princess for you to think of.
After all, she has us in her power.
The merest whisper in Downing Street, and behold, catastrophe!" Dominey took his friend's arm. "Look here, Seaman," he rejoined, "it's easy enough to say there is the Princess to be considered, but will you kindly tell me what on earth more I can do to make her see the position? Necessity demands that I should be on the best of terms with Lady Dominey and I should not make myself in any way conspicuous with the Princess." "I am not sure," Seaman reflected, "that the terms you are on with Lady Dominey matter very much to any one.
So far as regards the Princess, she is an impulsive and passionate person, but she is also _grande dame_ and a diplomatist.
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