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قراءة كتاب Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
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ILLUSTRATIONS
| "'Don't you know any better than to come in here?' demanded the Prince" (page 67) |
Frontispiece |
| "'You are the only man to whom I feel sure that I can reveal myself and be quite understood'" |
Facing page 104 |
| "'Bobby! Don't be foolish. How could I be in love with him?'" |
158 |
| "'His Majesty appears to have—ahem—gone to sleep,' remarked the Grand Duke tartly" |
366 |
TRUXTON KING
A STORY OF GRAUSTARK
CHAPTER I
TRUXTON KING
He was a tall, rawboned, rangy young fellow with a face so tanned by wind and sun you had the impression that his skin would feel like leather if you could affect the impertinence to test it by the sense of touch. Not that you would like to encourage this bit of impudence after a look into his devil-may-care eyes; but you might easily imagine something much stronger than brown wrapping paper and not quite so passive as burnt clay. His clothes fit him loosely and yet were graciously devoid of the bagginess which characterises the appearance of extremely young men whose frames are not fully set and whose joints are still parading through the last stages of college development. This fellow, you could tell by looking at him, had been out of college from two to five years; you could also tell, beyond doubt or contradiction, that he had been in college for his full allotted time and had not escaped the usual number of "conditions" that dismay but do not