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The Princess of Bagdad: A Play In Three Acts
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2017
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Trévelé
In your youth?
Godler
No, in 1853, there were a king and queen…
Trévelé
Who reigned…
Godler
Exactly.
Trévelé
Happy time! Where did they reign?
Godler
At Bagdad.
Trévelé
Thank you.
Godler
This king and this queen had an only son, who was to succeed them. This son, 23 years old, took much too seriously his part of heir-presumptive. But what was the use of having a crown, if, in his turn, he was not to have an heir to leave it to? However, nothing in the young prince indicated the least inclination towards love, legitimate or otherwise.
Trévelé
He was not like you.
Godler
No, he was not like me.
Trévelé
Go on.
Godler
Always study; always reflection; always indifference.
Trévelé
A strange prince!
Godler
The ambassadors opened negotiation upon negotiation uselessly with foreign courts in view of a political alliance. Several young princesses of surrounding countries, of Hindostan, of Persia, and even of Europe…
Trévelé
How well you relate a thing!
Godler
Were waiting full-dressed, their hair well-dressed and splendidly perfumed, for the king of Bagdad to ask their hand for his son. The telegraph replied always: Wait! Wait!
Trévelé
Go on quickly.
Godler
A chamberlain had a very simple idea.
Trévelé
In general the ideas of chamberlains are very simple.
Godler
This was, to let the prince travel, in order that he might see other women than those of Bagdad, since they were acknowledged to be insufficient, and to send him at once to Paris.
Trévelé
Bad complaints require strong remedies.
Godler
But this was not all; beauty was necessary, and it must be stock of a particular kind: also those that he did not marry must differ only in rank from the one he did marry. In fact, it was not a Lycœnion, but a perfect Chloe, that was sought for the instruction of this Daphnis, and it was not to be child's play.
Trévelé
I see the young Lionnette dawning. But how did everything come about?
Godler
That will make the subject of the following chapter. The ambassador of Bagdad came with us sometimes in the evening, to eat chesnuts and drink cider at Madame Duranton's.
Trévelé
And he discovered a way of leading the prince to eat the cherries and almonds?
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