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Title: The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight

Author: Elizabeth von Arnim

Release Date: August 8, 2004 [eBook #13141]

Language: English

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Editorial note: We now know that "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" was
written by Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941). Born Mary
Annette Beauchamp in Australia, she grew up in England
and married a German, Count Henning August von
Arnim-Schlagenthin. After the couple moved to his country
estate she began writing children's books. Many of her
early books were published "By the Author of 'Elizabeth
and Her German Garden'," and later she published as
simply "Elizabeth."

THE PRINCESS PRISCILLA'S FORTNIGHT

BY THE AUTHOR OF "ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN"

1905

"Oft habe ich die Welt durchwandert, und habe immer
gesehen, wie das Grosse am Kleinlichen scheitert, und das
Edle von dem aetzenden Gift des Alltaeglichen zerfressen wird."
FRITZING, "Erlebtes und Erlittenes."

I

Her Grand Ducal Highness the Princess Priscilla of Lothen-Kunitz was
up to the age of twenty-one a most promising young lady. She was not
only poetic in appearance beyond the habit of princesses but she was
also of graceful and appropriate behaviour. She did what she was told;
or, more valuable, she did what was expected of her without being
told. Her father, in his youth and middle age a fiery man, now an
irritable old gentleman who liked good food and insisted on strictest
etiquette, was proud of her on those occasions when she happened to
cross his mind. Her mother, by birth an English princess of an
originality uncomfortable and unexpected in a royal lady that
continued to the end of her life to crop up at disconcerting momen