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 and that her own side, when she should choose to present it, would be replete with touching interest.

"It does not remind me of the town, of course," she said; "of the sculptured gables and the Gothic churches, of the wonderful Schloss, with its moat and its clustering towers. But it has a little look of some other parts of the principality. One might fancy one's self among those grand old German forests, those legendary mountains; the sort of country one sees from the windows at Schreckenstein."

"What is Schreckenstein?" asked Acton.

"It is a great castle—the summer residence of the Reigning Prince."

"Have you ever lived there?"