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Title: The King's Mirror

Author: Anthony Hope

Release Date: December 26, 2007 [EBook #24034]

Language: English

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THE KING'S MIRROR

A NOVEL

BY ANTHONY HOPE

Author of The Chronicles of Count Antonio--The Prisoner of Zenda--The
God in the Car--Phroso--Rupert of Hentzau, etc.

[Illustration: INTER FOLIA FRUCTIS]

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1899

COPYRIGHT, 1898, 1899,
BY ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.

_All rights reserved_.

[Illustration: "I'm not a king for my own pleasure." (See page 14.)]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I.--A PIOUS HYPERBOLE 1
II.--A BIRD WITHOUT WINGS 11
III.--SOME SECRET OPINIONS 22
IV.--TWO OF MY MAKERS 34
V.--SOMETHING ABOUT VICTORIA 47
VI.--A STUDENT OF LOVE AFFAIRS 60
VII.--THINGS NOT TO BE NOTICED 73
VIII.--DESTINY IN A PINAFORE 84
IX.--JUST WHAT WOULD HAPPEN 96
X.--OF A POLITICAL APPOINTMENT 109
XI.--AN ACT OF ABDICATION 122
XII.--KING AT A PRICE 136
XIII.--I PROMISE NOT TO LAUGH 151
XIV.--PLEASURE TAKES LEAVE TO PROTEST 165
XV.--THE HAIR-DRESSER WAITS 179
XVI.--A CHASE OF TWO PHANTOMS 193
XVII.--DECIDEDLY MEDIAEVAL 207
XVIII.--WILLIAM ADOLPHUS HITS THE MARK 219
XIX.--GREAT PROMOTION 233
XX.--AN INTERESTING PARALLEL 248
XXI.--ON THE ART OF FALLING SOFT