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Excerpt from The Ambassador's Wife, Vol. 2 of 3I am not surprised that he likes me. I say this without vanity, and without pride - without reference to beauty or grace, wit or amiability, but simply because convinced that any human being, albeit by circumstance imperial, must grow sick of eternal adulation. Nothing short of a divinity can tolerate perpetual incense.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and ...

Excerpt from The Ambassador's Wife, Vol. 2 of 3 My event is not quite an earthquake, yet in the court circle here, it excites as much interest as if one of the lesser capitals of Europe had been swallowed up, or as if one of the great powers had committed one of those acts of littleness which great powers alone are permitted to commit with impunity. This, by the way, is a rash political ¿ight for St. Petersburg! But as I fancy my recently ac ...