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...Royal Highness pleaded that he must consult Court Chamberlain Hiott. Passed two days. Then Court Chamberlain Hiott publicly denied with appropriate indignation that Her Majesty the Dowager Queen Marie had communicated any statement, interview or intimation whatsoever to Universal. "I consider this affair," said he, "a shameful scandal!" Epilog: Eight-year-old King Mihai was trotted out in his first long trousers to receive the homage of the entire cabinet, shake the hand of previously rebuffed Regent Constantin Saratzeanu...
...over the frightened girl. His support lends much point to that baffled breathlessness, that twitching of the limbs and lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...
...epilog to the LaFollette campaign against the Supreme Court, C. William Ramseyer, U. S. Congressman from Iowa, asked the Legislative Reference Bureau of the Library of Congress for statistics...
Last week, in Chicago, the answer to this question, the epilog to this book, was, to all appearances, written for good. Young Schaefer beat Hoppe. Before a gallery that stared with strained intensity at a green baize table spotted with three ivory spheres, the game began that was to be an epilog, an answer. Schaefer won the bank, missed his shot; Hoppe, attempting a difficult around-the-table shot, failed, too; again Schaefer missed. The gallery shifted uncomfortably; gentlemen regarded one another in amazement. Were these scratchers the two greatest billiard players in the world? Hoppe chalked his cue, made...
This book is the Epilog to the Biography of which each of his novels, he insists, is a chapter. The Prolog, it will be recalled, was Beyond Life. Mr. Cabell's adroit pen and urbane intelligence have lost none of their skill in the years intervening between the two volumes...