The Empresi-Dowager sat with two or three old maids of honour opposite hey and with a charming young girl by her sid The girl ator of Price: Chin Her Ma ud the age of 5 bat she eve ler, perhaps own to the privations she lad had to experi= once since her flight from the she is a woman of extraordinary vigour of mind was indicated by her firm mouth and resolute cast of feattires. With the help of two of her attendants she descended from her ed riage and in the next moment her figure disappeared into the palanguin prepared for her.
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