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... wrote the Prince in his diary, 'all the defects of our present military hospital system, and the reforms that are needed.' She related 'the whole story' of her experiences in the East; and, in addition, she managed to have some long and confidential talks with His Royal Highness on metaphysics and religion. The impression which she created was excellent. 'Sie gefallt uns sehr,' noted the Prince, 'ist sehr bescheiden.' Her Majesty's comment was different—'Such a HEAD! I wish we had her ...

— Eminent Victorians • Lytton Strachey

... "I hope your Highness will pardon me, but I find it often undesirable to voice my thoughts until I have reached a certain stage of ...

— The Secrets of the German War Office • Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves

... "Your Highness," he gasped, "I will tell you the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I am guilty—yes, I am guilty; but I am not so guilty as you think, for I was led away ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... De Wardes; "but will you allow me to remark, my dear count, that, without rank of some sort, one can hardly hope to belong to his royal highness's household?" ...

— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... stables. There, doubtless because he knew more about the business than anybody else concerned with it, he soon became chief. In that capacity he made himself so acceptable to the Duke, that he was taken from the stables to be his highness's personal attendant. His excellence in that position soon enlarged his duties to those of controller of the whole ducal household. And thence, by degrees that were more imperceptible in the case of such a government than they could have been ...

— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

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