[Clementina by A.E.W. Mason]@TWC D-Link bookClementina CHAPTER IV 8/40
The comfortable citizen in the snuff-coloured suit sat for some while over that letter with a strange light upon his face and a smile of great happiness.
The comfortable citizen was Charles Wogan, and he could dissociate the obstructions of the mother from the willingness of the girl. The October evening wove its veils from the mountain crests across the valleys; the sun and the daylight had gone from the room before Wogan tore that letter up and wrote another to the Chevalier at Bologna, telling him that the Princess Clementina would venture herself gladly if he could secure the consent of Prince Sobieski, her father.
And the next morning he drove out in a carriage towards Ohlau in Silesia. It was as the Chevalier Warner that he had first journeyed thither to solicit for his King the Princess Clementina's hand.
Consequently he used the name again.
Winter came upon him as he went; the snow gathered thick upon the hills and crept down into the valleys, encumbering his path.
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