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The Goose Girl

CHAPTER XIV
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He is even now absent on a hunting trip in Bavaria, and his coronation but a few days off.

There will be only one king in Jugendheit, and that will be the prince regent." "He has done tolerably well up to the present," observed Carmichael, welcoming this change.

"Jugendheit is prosperous; it has a splendid army.

The prince regent is a fine type of man, they say, rugged, patient, frugal and sensible." "There is an instance where he made a cruel blunder." "No man is infallible," said he, wondering what this blunder was.
"I suppose not.

Look! The artillery is firing." Boom-boom! They saw the smoke leap from the muzzles of the cannon, and it seemed minutes before the sound reached them.
"I have a fine country, too," she said, with pride; "prosperous, and an army not inferior to that of Jugendheit." "I was not making comparisons, your Highness." "I know that, my friend.


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