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Fred M. White. A Mummer's Throne
A Mummer's Throne
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.--A Royal Mouse
CHAPTER II.--"A Mere Player."
CHAPTER III.--Le Roi S'Amuse
CHAPTER IV.--"I Crown Thee Queen."
CHAPTER V.--The Masque of the Comus
CHAPTER VI.--The Ways of Diplomacy
CHAPTER VII.--"Whom God Hath Joined--"
CHAPTER VIII.--The Fierce Light or the Throne
CHAPTER IX.--A Plot Within a Plot
CHAPTER X.--"All the World's a Stage--"
CHAPTER XI.--The Real Throne
THE END
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Fred M. White
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Fritz, King of Montenana, blushed to the roots of his fair hair. It was well, perhaps that no society paragraphist was present.
The little gaudy group separated, and Rutzstin staggered into the Embassy in the arms of his host. The old warrior looked very pale and ghastly now in the light of the sun. His cunning, clever face was a mass of tiny wrinkles like the rind of a melon. Yet, there was no suggestion of anxiety on the face of his sovereign; indeed, a close observer might have said that he appeared to be pleased about something. One of the Embassy's secretaries came up to King Fritz at the same moment.
