Excerpt from With a Silken Thread and Other Stories, Vol. 1 of 3

Doubtless the story of King Cophetua reads well. The picture of the Royal lover condescending to the maid of low estate - lifting beggary to a seat on the Imperial throne and covering rags with the Royal purple - thrills the hearts of all those who prize love more than conventional laws and who hold that social distinctions should be subordinated to human emotion. But the thing works awkwardly in real life.

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