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Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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Sir Max Beerbohm
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Prince
Vierfuenfsechs-Siebenachtneun
offered
her
his
hand,
and
was
condemned
by
the
Kaiser
to
six
months’
confinement
in
his
little
castle.
In
Yildiz
Kiosk,
the
tyrant
who
still
throve
there
conferred
on
her
the
Order
of
Chastity,
and
offered
her
the
central
couch
in
his
seraglio.
She
gave
her
performance
in
the
Quirinal,
and,
from
the
Vatican,
the
Pope
launched
against
her
a
Bull
which
fell
utterly
flat.
In
Petersburg,
the
Grand
Duke
Salamander
Salamandrovitch
fell
enamoured
of
her.
Of
every
article
in
the
apparatus
of
her
conjuring-tricks
he
caused
a
replica
to
be
made
in
finest
gold.
These
treasures
he
presented
to
her
in
that
great
malachite
casket
which
now
stood
on
the
little
table
in
her
room;
and
thenceforth
it
was
with
these
that
she
performed
her
wonders.
They
did
not
mark
the
limit
of
the
Grand
Duke’s
generosity.
He
was
for
bestowing
on
Zuleika
the
half
of
his
immensurable
estates.
The
Grand
Duchess
appealed
to
the
Tzar.
Zuleika
was
conducted
across
the
frontier,
by
an
escort
of
love-sick
Cossacks.
On
the
Sunday
before
she
left
Madrid,
a
great
bull-fight
was
held
in
her
honour.
Fifteen
bulls
received
the
coup-de-grace,
and
Alvarez,
the
matador
of
matadors,
died
in
the
arena
with
her
name
on
his
lips.
He
had
tried
to
kill
the
last
bull
without
taking
his
eyes
off
la
divina
senorita.
A
prettier
compliment
had
never
been
paid
her,
and
she
was
immensely
pleased
with
it.
For
that
matter,
she
was
immensely
pleased
with
everything.
She
moved
proudly
to
the
incessant
music
of
a
paean,
aye!
of
a
paean
that
was
always
crescendo.
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