She died; and her place was supplied by a German princess nearly allied to the Imperial House.

Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and without any intimations of my own ludicrousness spent two years showing God what I thought of him by letting myself go.

The high worth of diamonds comes from the same source: a super-hard, eternal substance, at the same time a light-bearing, translucent substance, a kind of solid emptiness, a marvelous optical illusion.

Each is embellished with Italian Renaissance-inspired detail, including rusticated stonework, pedimented window hoods, consoles, cartouches, a denticulate cornice and a roof-mounted balustrade