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A ROMANCE 197
CHAPTER XII.
PEOVIDENCE VON EOSEN : ACT THE SECOND : SHE
INFORMS THE PRINCE.
It was the first impulse of Madame von Eosen to
return to her own villa and revise her toilette.
Whatever else should come of this adventure,
it was her firm design to pay a visit to the
Princess. And before that woman, so little be-
loved, the Countess would appear at no dis-
advantage. It was the work of minutes. Yon
Eosen had the captain's eye in matters of the
toilette ; she was none of those who hang
in Fabian helplessness among their finery and,
after hours, come forth upon the world as
dowdies. A glance, a loosened curl, a studied
and admired disorder in the hair, a bit of lace,
a touch of colour, a yellow rose in the bosom ;
and the instant picture was complete.
' That will do,' she said. ' Bid my carriage
follow me to the palace. In half an hour it
should be there in waiting.'
The night was beginning to fall and the
CHAPTER XII.
PEOVIDENCE VON EOSEN : ACT THE SECOND : SHE
INFORMS THE PRINCE.
It was the first impulse of Madame von Eosen to
return to her own villa and revise her toilette.
Whatever else should come of this adventure,
it was her firm design to pay a visit to the
Princess. And before that woman, so little be-
loved, the Countess would appear at no dis-
advantage. It was the work of minutes. Yon
Eosen had the captain's eye in matters of the
toilette ; she was none of those who hang
in Fabian helplessness among their finery and,
after hours, come forth upon the world as
dowdies. A glance, a loosened curl, a studied
and admired disorder in the hair, a bit of lace,
a touch of colour, a yellow rose in the bosom ;
and the instant picture was complete.
' That will do,' she said. ' Bid my carriage
follow me to the palace. In half an hour it
should be there in waiting.'
The night was beginning to fall and the
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Written and printed matter > Books |
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1888 [Date published] |
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Europe >
United Kingdom >
England >
Greater London >
London
(inhabited place) [Place published] |
Subject / content: |
Fiction Romances |
Person / organisation: |
Chatto & Windus (Firm) [Publisher] Spottiswoode & Co. [Printer] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
Person / organisation: |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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