EBOOK Princess Virginia

WHEN THE NEWS CAME No, said the Princess. No. I&'m - dashed if I do. My darling child! exclaimed the Grand Duchess. You&'re impossible. If any one should hear you! It&'s he who&'s impossible, the Princess amended. I&'m just trying to show you - Or to shock me. You are so like your grandmother. That&'s the best compliment any one can give me, which is lucky, as it&'s given so often, laughed the Princess. Dear, adorable Virginia! She cuddled into the pink hollow of her hand the pearl-framed ivory miniature of a beautiful, smiling girl, which always hung from a thin gold chain around her neck. They shouldn&'t have named me after you, should they, if they hadn&'t wanted me to be like you? It was partly a question of money, dear, sighed the Grand Duchess. If my mother hadn&'t left a legacy to my first daughter only on consideration that her own extremely American name of Virginia should be perpetuated - "e;It was a delicious way of being patriotic. I&'m glad she did it. I love being the only Royal Princess with American blood in my veins and an American name on my handkerchiefs