[Manasseh by Maurus Jokai]@TWC D-Link bookManasseh CHAPTER X 3/17
What could have caused this transformation? The weapon which she held in her hands,--"the fourteenth paragraph of the Secret Instructions." What cared she that to her these words were utterly meaningless? It sufficed her to know that there was such a paragraph; _he_ had told her so. A waiter announced that her lunch was served.
Ordinarily Blanka ate no more than a sick child; now she was conscious of an appetite like that of a convalescent making up for a long series of lost meals.
The dainties which she had ordered tasted uncommonly appetising.
While she was busy with her oysters, the head waiter informed her that the "count" had come a second time and begged leave to wait upon her. "Show him up," promptly replied the princess, without allowing her lunch to be interrupted in the least. The handsome young man already introduced to the reader was ushered in. The situation in which he found the princess seemed scarcely to harmonise with his plans.
It rendered exceedingly difficult any approach to the sentimental. "Set a chair for the gentleman," Blanka commanded her attendant, speaking, as if from forgetfulness, in Hungarian, and then correcting herself with a great show of surprise at her own carelessness. "_Grazie!_ And now, sir, pray be seated.
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