6 “Would it not be charming”: Anthony, 315
63. FAVORITES
1 “with the greatest dignity”: Coughlan, 294
2 “Last night I was in love with him”: Haslip, 257
3 “Pyrrhus, king of Epirus”: Kaus, 326,
4 “Big books at the bottom”: Cronin, 256
5 “changed his original common name”: Haslip, 261
6 “kind, gay, honest”: Madariaga,
7 “compared to the others, he was an angel”: Haslip, 288
8 “they helped, but I could not endure”: Alexander, 217
9 “I am plunged into the most profound grief”: Ibid., 216
10 “From Catherine to my dearest friend”: Haslip, 290
11 “I am once more inwardly calm”: Ibid., 292
12 “You cur, you monkey”: Ibid., 299
13 “Either he or I must go!”: Ibid.
14 “They slept until nine o’clock”: Alexander, 218
15 “We are as clever”: Coughlan, 295
16 “Sasha is beyond price”: Haslip, 305
17 “stifling”: Ibid., 306
18 “It is your duty to remain”: Ibid., 330
19 “cold and preoccupied”: Alexander, 219
20 “a girl most ordinary”: Ibid., 220
21 “God grant them happiness”: Gooch, 51
22 “I have never been”: Alexander, 222
23 “constantly tortures my soul”: Ibid.
64. CATHERINE, PAUL, AND NATALIA
1 “We have never had a jollier time”: Gooch, 26
2 “I return to town on Tuesday”: Ibid.
3 “Everything is done to excess”: Alexander, 227
4 “The grand duke”: Smith,
5 “Her friends are, with reason”: Alexander, 228
6 “Never in my life”: Ibid.
7 “For three days”: Haslip, 239
8 “perfectly formed boy”: Alexander, 229
9 I have wasted no time”: Troyat, 232
10 “since it has been proven”: Ibid., 231
65. PAUL, MARIA, AND THE SUCCESSION
1 “I hope that in time”: Ibid., 231
2 “Nothing can exceed”: Gooch, 29
3 “The grand duke is exceedingly amiable”: Ibid.
4 “my daughter.… Be assured”: Alexander, 232
5 “We shall have her here”: Anthony, 277
6 “My son has returned”: Alexander, 233.
7 “I swear to love and adore you”: Troyat, 234
8 “This dear husband is an angel”: Gooch, 30
9 “Wherever she goes”: Ibid.
10 “had been given a map of Europe”: Haslip, 285
11 “whether his Polish majesty”: Ibid., 286
12 “prefers stewed fruit”: Ibid.
