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Anne Topham. Memories of the Kaiser's Court
Memories of the Kaiser's Court
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. ARRIVAL AT THE PRUSSIAN COURT
CHAPTER II. HOMBURG-VOR-DER-HÖHE
CHAPTER III. THE NEW PALACE
CHAPTER IV. DIVERSIONS OF THE KAISER’S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER V. CHRISTMAS AT COURT
CHAPTER VI. BERLIN SCHLOSS
CHAPTER VII. DONAU-ESCHINGEN AND METZ
CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION
CHAPTER IX. THE BAUERN-HAUS AND SCHRIPPEN-FEST
CHAPTER X. ROYAL WEDDINGS
CHAPTER XI. WILHELMSHÖHE
CHAPTER XII. CADINEN
CHAPTER XIII. ROMINTEN
CHAPTER XIV. THE KAISER AND KAISERIN
CHAPTER XV. CONCLUSION
INDEX
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Anne Topham
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I had developed an unsuspected talent in the direction of Versteckens—the ever-popular hide-and-seek—more especially in the rôle of seeker, and distributed the thrills of which the game is capable with even-handed impartiality, not forgetting that even the child of least originality, who hides in the most perfectly obvious place with large portions of his anatomy plainly visible, likes to have, so to speak, a run for his money, and enjoys the hovering discovery best when it retires baffled on the verge, and the wrong cupboard is frequently and persistently searched.
The form of the game which we played exacted that the seeker should count slowly up to a hundred with tightly shut eyes and then begin the search; but I compromised this rather wearisome method by allowing five minutes’ “law” and beginning to count at ninety. These odd five minutes were utilized to examine at ease many objects which I should otherwise never have seen; and to an accompaniment of muffled shrieks, thundering footsteps, and a passing vision of fleeting white legs, short frilly skirts, and rather smudgy princely features (for these out-of-the-way corners were a trifle dirty) I was enabled to study many quaint old steel engravings of hunting scenes which hung on the walls, engravings which would make a collector’s mouth water.
