![]() No wonder a famous artist begged to paint the picture of her that now hung in St. All the colors on her seemed to go together just right-black hair with a hint of blue in it, eyes that were blue with a bit of black, marble skin and a body like a statue. That was probably as common as hiccups for Irina, who was all the best bits of my father’s family in one person. That evening they were whispering about some gorgeous man who reined in his horse to stare at Irina. They’d been best friends all their lives. Princess Irina was seventeen, same as Ollie. Mama let me rejoin the others for dinner, though she held firm on the punishment of no pudding.īecause Uncle Nikolasha was there, Aunt Xenia and Princess Irina joined us, along with Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich. ![]() “Liza says he’s like nothing she’s ever seen. “I know that.” I ripped up a dandelion in fury. Ollie laughed at me and said I was a gullible prat. Some whispered that he even raised a peasant child from the grave. He cured Madame Dubois of pneumonia and vanished the scar on Liza Taneeva’s cheek. ![]() People said he could tell your future in a cloud of smoke and read the whole of your past in a drop of blood from your finger. ![]() Anastasia is the princess no one needs: the fourth daughter born to an emperor without a son, and the only royal lacking a magical gift. ![]()
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