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washed cleaner, and gave my hat and coat an extra brnsh, much to their 

 astonishment. On my way up the high hill, I asked my coachman 

 whether he was authorized to drive close up to the palace door ? " Yes!" 

 said he — " when I have the honor of driving gentlemen of the nobil- 

 ity. " "Well" — I replied — "you may do that to-day, for you are dri- 

 ving an American King.'''' The fellow looked round at me with a du- 

 bious air, — "Yes" — 1 repeated — "an American King, for in my country 

 we are all Kings. " He evidently did not believe me, and had so little 

 respect for my royalty, that he actually fell asleep, as his panting horses 

 were tugging up the hill. A smart thwack of my cane across his braw- 

 ny shoulders, with a threat that 1 would hurl him down the precipice, 

 brought him to his senses. After that he plainly thought that I acted 

 very like a King. 



At length we arrived at the palace. I will not describe it. It is 

 about twice as long as Pennsylvania College, that is, about three hun- 

 dred feet ; — it is surrounded with gardens and groves, crowded with 

 statuary and fountains and all the embellishments of a princely resi- 

 dence. 



A lackey stood at the principal entrance. " Is the prince at home ?" 

 " Yes, Merr, but he is just preparing to go out in the cliasc." "Deliver 

 this card and letter to him, — and tell his highness that I sliall be satis- 

 iled with but a short interview to day." He took the^n up stairs. F 

 heard conversation ; — it was like that between a prince and a servant, — 

 one voice imperative and lordly : the other submissive and cringing. — 

 He remained fifteen minutes. Tliought I : he''s putting things in order, 

 — perhaps putting on a clean shirt and he's cursing the servant for be- 

 ing so slow in helping him— I shall be called presently. The servant 

 came down, — 1 run my fingers once more through my hair and even 

 felt whether my ears were in right trim. The fellow made a low and 

 obsetiuious bow and stammered out a hundred regrets, — was infinitely 

 (uncndlich) sorry to tell me that the prince had already gone out ! ! ! 

 My looks told him that I knew he and his master lied, — he felt it and 

 shrunk. — I looked at him more fiercely and his eyes fell. — ! growled a 

 few words in a language which 1 knew he did not understand, and in 

 another, which he did understand, I told him that 1 heard the prince 

 speaking up stairs. He grew pale. — I turned my back indignantly upon 

 him, without leaving any compliments for the lord of the manor. 



I have no doubt, at any otlier time, he would have been glad to see 

 me. But ray letter was from such a source as to claim more than ordi- 

 nary attention from hiai, and rather than forego the pleasure of the 



