Only the nurses and the mothers held aloof; an earthquake shock would hardly have astonished and confused them more than had this smacking of royalty.

Had any one but the little cousin of the Honourable John Ruffin smacked, they would have been unable to refrain from an outburst of open disapproval.
To judge from the royal progress next morning, Pollyooly had indeed done her work.

The Baron von Habelschwert still perfumed the air as he walked; but it was no longer obviously the air of a conquered country.
His moustache was less fierce, his stride less proprietary.

Indeed he might easily have been mistaken, by those to whom his name and dignities were unknown, for the pear-shaped but inoffensive keeper of a delicatessen shop.

Prince Adalbert of Lippe-Schweidnitz was also changed.