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id: 1774
author: Shakespeare, William
title: Love's Labour's Lost
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words: 40
sentence: 3
flesch: 79
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summary:
  THERE IS AN IMPROVED EDITION OF THIS TITLE WHICH MAY BE VIEWED AS EBOOK (#100) at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100 ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* THIS EBOOK WAS ONE OF PROJECT GUTENBERG'S EARLY FILES PRODUCED


id: 37169
author: Lee, Vernon
title: Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five Acts
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words: 14799
sentence: 1023
flesch: 84
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summary:
  But_ DIEGO _has ceremoniously let himself down on one knee, expecting to kiss her hand_. _These are the contending forces of history and life: Impulse and Discipline, creating and keeping; love such as_ Diego's, _blind, selfish, magnanimous; and detachment, noble, a little bloodless and cruel, like that of the_ Duke of Mantua.


id: 2399
author: Pater, Walter
title: Imaginary Portraits
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words: 33243
sentence: 1111
flesch: 63
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summary:
  He assures us, indeed, that the new style is in truth a thing of old days, of his own old days here in Valenciennes, when, working long hours as a mason's boy, he in fancy reclothed the walls of this or that house he was employed in, with this fairy arrangement--itself like a piece of chamber-music, methinks, part answering to part; while no too trenchant note is allowed to break through the delicate harmony of white and pale red and little golden touches. It was a period, as older men took note, of young men and their influence.


id: 43086
author: Louise, Princess of Belgium
title: My Own Affairs
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words: 66370
sentence: 3352
flesch: 73
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summary:
  Elizabeth, Empress of Austria) Ernest, Duke, of Saxe-Coburg, 64, 116 Princess Louise and, 160, 161 Etienne, Archduke, 51 Eucharistic Congress (1914), Emperor Francis Joseph at, 115 Faure, M., duets with Queen Henriette, 20 Ferdinand of Bulgaria, adopts title of Tsar, 123 as Emperor of Byzantium, 121 character of, 71, 92, 117 _et seq._ downfall of, 130 enmity of, to Princess Louise, 130 excommunication of, 125 marriage of, 124 mother's influence on, 117 Princess Louise and, 118-120, 126-130 sons of, baptized into Greek Church, 124 Flandre, Comte and Comtesse of, 47 visit Princess Louise at Lindenhof, 191 France, politics and religion in, 97 Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, 1 and Princess Louise's scandals, 89, 90, 182 at Eucharistic Congress (1914), 115 Berlin and, 137 character of, 84, 134 death of Archduke Rudolph and, 86 greatness of, 55 justice of, 85 Madame Schratt and, 85, 86, 115 madness of, regarding war, 231 personal appearance of, 134, 136 refuses help to Princess Louise, 92 Frederick, Crown Prince, 57 at Princess Louise's wedding, 59 Frederick, Emperor, character of, 133, 143 Fugger, Countess, fidelity of, 179, 183, 190 Gerard, Queen Henriette's _maître-d' hôtel_, 24 German Emperor (_see_ William II) Germany, evil influence of Prussia on, 133, 152, 158 legendary philosophy of, 157 treatment of ex-kings by, 160 William II responsible for crimes of, 133, 140 Goethe, as Princess Louise's favourite author, 15 Gotha, Princess Louise at, 64 Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, character of, 146 coerces Princess Louise at Munich, 233 Count Mattachich and, 149 fortune of Leopold II and, 43 Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, marriage of, with Princess Dora, 80, 146, 147 warns Princess Louise, 181 Heine, Heinrich, Empress Elizabeth and, 94 Princess Louise's estimate of, 93 Helpa, Count (_see_ Auguste of Saxe-Coburg) Henriette, Queen of Belgium, 4 and death of Prince Leopold, 25, 28 as horsewoman, 21, 44 beauty and character of, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 death of, at Spa, 40 friendship of, with Duc d'Aumale, 46 influence at Vienna of, 57 influence on Princess Louise, 22, 23, 37, 39 King Leopold and, 24, 25, 28, 31, 34 letters of, to Princess Louise at Lindenhof, 191 marriage of, 17 parents of, 17 Prince Louise's marriage and, 54, 57, 246 Hesse, Grand Duke of, marriage of, with Princess Melita, 163 Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Princess Louise at, 82 Hohenberg, Duchess of (_see_ Chotek, Countess) Hoyoz, Count, at Meyerling, 111 Hungary, Coburg estates in, 58 John, Archduke (John Orth), disappearance of, 96 Joinville, Prince de, 45 Joseph, Archduke, at Princess Louise's wedding, 59 at Sadowa, 17 palace of, at Buda, 74 Keglevich, Count, and Count Mattachich, 181, 183 Keglevich, Countess, Princess Louise and Count Mattachich take refuge with, 180 Laeken, Château of, childhood of Princess Louise at, 49, 52, 63 commemoration oak trees at, 36 inconveniences of, 22 King Leopold and gardens at, 30, 31 marriage of Princess Louise at, 60 Queen Henrietta's feat of horsemanship at, 21 Royal children's gardens at, 36 Lantsheere, M. de, address to the Senate by, 229, 230 _Le Journal_, Princess Louise and, 195 Leopold I, death of, 17, 18, 29 influence of, 116 Leopold II of Belgium, 1, 2 accession of, 18 administration of Empress Charlotte's fortune by, 32 attitude towards daughters of, 34, 35 Belgian Government on, 216, 217 Belgium and fortune of, 32, 33, 211 _et seq._ character of, 25, 27 _et seq._ colonial policy of, 28, 31 death of, 216 forethought against Germany of, 134 fortune of, 32, 33, 79, 147, 150, 172, 212, 234 gardens at Laeken and, 30, 31 influence of death of son on, 34 lawsuit concerning fortune of, 211 _et seq._ love of flowers of, 30 marriage of, 17 marriage of Princess Louise and, 100, 246 marriage of Princess Stéphanie and, 100 on blindness of France, 97 on William II, 134 personality of, 28, 29 Princess Louise at funeral of, 40, 147, 150 sarcasm of, 10 will of, 221, 222 Leopold, Prince, of Belgium, birth of, 21 birthday oak at Laeken of, 37 character of, 52 childhood of, 51, 52 death of, 21, 25, 33, 51 Leopold, son of Princess Louise, death of, 80 relations of, with mother, 79 Lindenhof, Princess Louise in asylum of, 186 _et seq._ Lobor, Château of, Princess Louise and Count Mattachich take refuge at, 180 Louis II of Bavaria, character of 154, 156 Louis III of Bavaria, character of, 155, 156 Louis Philippe, King, 46, 47 Louis Victor, Archduke, as instigator of persecution of Princess Louise, 87, 88, 89, 90 Louise, Princess, alleged madness of, 39, 150, 151, 181, 184, 186, 189 appeal to Munich courts by, 235 Archduke Louis Victor and, 87 Archduke Rudolph and, 103-105, 108, 109, 110 arrest of, 183 as eldest daughter, 22 as horsewoman, 44 as mother, 78, 247 as Princess of Coburg, 42, 65 at Agram, 181, 182 at Biarritz, 50, 51 at Bologna, 74, 77 at Budapest, 64, 74 at Cannes, 74, 77 at Chantilly, 46 at Château d'Eu, 46 at Coburg Palace, 12, 63 _et seq._ at father's funeral, 40 at Queen Victoria's Jubilee celebrations, 169 at Regensburg, 158, 159 attitude of King and Queen towards, 29, 30, 173 Belgium's treatment of, 2 betrothal of, 54 birth of daughter to, 80 birthday oak at Laeken of, 37 Bolshevists and, 1, 2, 74, 243 childhood of, 22, 30, 49 coercion of, by Duke Gunther, 233, 234 Comtesse de Flandre's visit to, at Lindenhof, 191 conjugal life of, 38 Count Mattachich, at Nice with, 148, 149, 176, 177; attempts release of, 193 _et seq._ Court of Vienna and, 8 daughter's desertion of, 150 declared sane by French doctors, 209 departure for Austria of, 63 differences with husband of, 68, 76, 89, 90, 91 divorce of, 41 Dr. Sudekum's assistance to, 200 Emperor William and, 133, 138 Empress Augusta and, 143, 144 enemies of, 4, 5 enmity of Ferdinand of Bulgaria to, 130 escape of, from Bad-Elster, 200 _et seq._ exile of, 36 extravagance of, 171, 172 favourite authors of, 15 feelings for Belgium of, 2 Ferdinand of Bulgaria and, 118-120, 126-130 flight from Silesia of, 238-240 flight with Count Mattachich of, 179 Heinrich Heine and, 94 hereditary qualities of, 9, 12, 13, 14 ideals of, 11 in asylum at Lindenhof and Purkesdorf, 186 _et seq._ incident on wedding night of, 60, 61 infancy of, 18, 21 King Leopold and marriage of, 100 King Leopold's fortune and, 32 lawsuit of, concerning the King's fortune, 211 _et seq._ _ Eleven years have passed since the death of the 'Great King.'


id: 41005
author: Le Queux, William
title: The Great Court Scandal
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words: 73054
sentence: 3876
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Other men would have at least been proud to receive the thanks and decoration of a reigning sovereign, while he had utterly ignored them. Like many other men, he had commenced life as a small advocate in an obscure provincial town, but by dint of ingenious scheming and dishonest double-dealing he had wormed himself into the confidence of the old King, who regarded him as a necessity for the government of the country.


id: 6801
author: McCutcheon, George Barr
title: Beverly of Graustark
extension: .txt
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words: 87381
sentence: 6330
flesch: 86
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summary:
  His eyes twinkled as he replied, with fine obsequiousness: You are Miss Beverly Calhoun, of Washington. The awful rocking and the jolting grew less severe, the clatter resolved itself into a broken rumble, and then the coach stopped with a mighty lurch. Dragging herself from the corner, poor Beverly Calhoun, no longer a disdainful heroine, gazed piteously out into the shadows, expecting the murderous blade of the driver to meet her as she did so.


id: 12309
author: Hall, Thornton
title: Love affairs of the Courts of Europe
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words: 87429
sentence: 2945
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Such days of bliss were, however, few and far between for the man who was now in the throes of a Titanic struggle, on the issue of which his fortunes and those of France hung. Cyril, in fact, was to his last day as unspoiled by his unaccustomed grandeur as his brother Alexis.


id: 36412
author: Egan, Maurice Francis
title: Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning
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words: 85498
sentence: 4188
flesch: 69
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summary:
  Nevertheless, when one caught the reflections of German opinion in Denmark, one became surer than ever that the new Empire was not inclined to accept the isolation which European politicians were apparently forcing on her. The usual hair-splitting of great men and officialdom had been anticipated, so with considerable glee, the trifling plate changes were rushed, and the big sixty-four press was started to toss off 100,000 copies.'


id: 60901
author: Hamilton, Frederic, Lord
title: The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday Being Some Random Reminiscences of a British Diplomat
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words: 88931
sentence: 3631
flesch: 65
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summary:
  In view of the straitened circumstances of most Portuguese families, the evening meal would probably consist of one single dish of _bacalhao_ or salt cod, and you would have put your hosts to the greatest inconvenience. I attribute the dry-rot which ate into the whole structure of the mighty Empire, and brought it crashing to the ground, in a very large degree to the intemperate habits prevailing amongst all classes of Russian men, which in justice one must add, may be due to climatic reasons.


id: 6353
author: McCutcheon, George Barr
title: The Prince of Graustark
extension: .txt
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words: 96872
sentence: 6333
flesch: 85
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txt: txt/6353.txt
summary:
  BLITHERS DISCUSS MATRIMONY My dear, said Mr. Blithers, with decision, you can't tell me. It was quite impossible to impart information to Mr. Blithers when he had the tips of two resolute fingers embedded in his ears.


id: 13955
author: Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
title: The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 94291
sentence: 5749
flesch: 83
cache: cache/13955.txt
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summary:
  He has a very handsome face, is extremely musical, and plays the piano with great _finesse_, having a most sympathetic touch. She even selected the songs she thought best for the occasion, and was present with all the court, which, of course, gave great _éclat_ to the concert.


id: 14284
author: McCutcheon, George Barr
title: Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
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words: 109912
sentence: 7829
flesch: 87
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summary:
  He turned in his chair and found himself meeting the gaze of a ferocious looking, military appearing little man at a table near by. All of you? There followed the silence of stupefaction, broken at last by a voice which he recognised as that of old man Spantz.


id: 36028
author: Mann, Thomas
title: Royal Highness
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 119400
sentence: 5017
flesch: 72
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summary:
  In the first place, Prince Klaus Heinrich, since Johann Albrecht's death, kept a Court of his own. On the very evening of the day on which she had brought the Princess zu Reid the great news, the _Courier_ published the announcement of Samuel Spoelmann's, the world-renowned Spoelmann's, impending arrival, and ten days later, at the beginning of October (it was the October of the year in which Grand Duke Albrecht had entered his thirty-second and Prince Klaus Heinrich his twenty-sixth year), thus barely giving time for public curiosity to reach a really high point, his arrival became a fact, a plain actuality on an autumn-tinged, entirely ordinary week-day, which was destined to impress itself on the future as a date to be remembered for ever.


id: 15763
author: Weyman, Stanley John
title: Count Hannibal: A Romance of the Court of France
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words: 111778
sentence: 7829
flesch: 91
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summary:
  I am no more than other men! And then other men came up, and stared at it and growled in their beards.


id: 21313
author: Fenn, George Manville
title: In Honour's Cause: A Tale of the Days of George the First
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words: 118225
sentence: 7455
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Why, boy, if you liked to make a stand for it, they would, I dare say, tell you that you are now Sir Frank Gowan. What's the matter, Frank boy?


id: 41803
author: Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
title: Joan of the Sword Hand
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words: 122242
sentence: 7722
flesch: 87
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summary:
  You have done bravely and spoken up like good men taken in a fault. Take Prince Ivan with you, and Conrad and I will keep the kingdom against your return, with your prize gentled on your wrist.


id: 4067
author: Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
title: Frederick the Great and His Court
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words: 137627
sentence: 6674
flesch: 79
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summary:
  There is in reality a certain salaried prince of a noble house, who has in his service all the varieties of guards that usually form the households of great kings, but all on so minute a scale that it is necessary to employ a microscope to distinguish each separate corps, and whose army is perhaps strong enough to represent a battle on the stage of Verona. A very wise and learned young king.


