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...peculiar fitness of "Mokri the Blind" for this post after he himself had become wearied by the necessity of personally inspecting hundreds of quite unpresentable maidens, merely because custom decreed that the Sultan alone of men should actually look upon the women with whom he might elect to consort. When it was noised about that "Mokri the Blind" had gradually developed his sense of touch to a point where it was almost equally discriminative with the Sultan's practiced eye, the entire responsibility of making a preliminary choice among candidates for thb harem was passed on to him. Eventually...
...work. When he began it was of a size to encompass the swelling blond mane of Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. When he completed his task, it had shrunk to a nice fit for the modish head of Hermine, Princess von Reuss, present consort of Wilhelm, one-time Imperator...
While Wilhelm earned his nickname "the Route Kaiser" by traveling and philandering about Europe, his dutiful consort busied herself at Berlin or Potsdam with the preparation of some "pleasant surprise" to divert him on his return...
Smiling enigmatically, he refused to affirm or deny rumors that he is about to petition the League of Nations to permit his father to quit Holland for Italy. Allegedly Wilhelm II desires this change of residence on account of the delicate health of "the Empress Hermine," as his consort is now referred to at Doom...
...From implied statements elsewhere in the context, it appears that she wanted Edward VII known as "Albert-Edward I," in memory of the Prince Consort, and preferred that the present King (George Frederick Ernest Albert) should be known as "Frederick...