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Excerpt from The Second Wife: A Romance There was a twofold significance in to-day's festivities; for just eighteen months before, the ruler of the country, the father of the crown-prince, had died, and his widow now for the first time laid aside her mourning. She stood beside the linden that had just been planted; no one could be for an instant mistaken in her as the mistress of all about her. She was dressed in white, with a spray of pale wild-roses stuck in her belt, and from the pink lining of the parasol that she held above her uncovered head a faint rosy reflection was cast upon her face, upon a delicate short nose and full-formed though rather colourless lips. The manifest irregularity of outline beneath the masses of black hair, the dark shadows around the eyes, and the waxy, inani mate hue of the complexion which one involuntarily connects with a passionate temperament, lent her face something of the Spanish creole type, although assuredly there did not run one drop of the blood of that race in the veins of the German princess. She followed the flight of the heron as fixedly as did the children, who gave another loud hurrah as he disappeared. You did not shout this time either, Gabriel, a little boy said, angrily, to another, taller than himself, beside him, whose plain white linen suit contrasted oddly with the rich dresses of the children among whom he stood. He made no reply, but cast down his eyes, whereat his young questioner fell into a rage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.