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Majesty, A Novel, by Louis Couperus, is newly translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos with a preface by Stephen McKenna. The preface says the betting-book in one of London's oldest and most famous clubs contains a wager, with odds laid at one hundred sovereigns to ten, that within five years there will not remain two crowned heads in Europe. The empress sits in the private drawing-room of her apartments in the right wing, with a lady-in-waiting, the Countess Hélène of Thesbia.
The text describes a nervous dread that haunted the empress as with an invisible net of meshes, unbreakable, and was for her husband, her children, her elder son, her daughters, her younger boy. A speaker tells someone named Olga that the speaker's boy has no friend of his own age. The emperor commands, "Burn that thing, and don't talk about it."
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- Author
- Louis Couperus
- Pages
- 188
- Language
- English
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