the
death of the King--one evening at twilight time--

"How I love to come here and dream a little," says the young man.
"This is a beautiful place. And sometimes one sees strange people, the
old courtiers of the King come walking as they used to walk."

Presently an aged man in Court attire appears with a tall, gilded stick
in his hand. "The King gave me this," says he in a quavering voice.
And then an aged dame appears. They will not explain themselves to the
young man, for he cannot understand. How can youth understand those
who are old?

The two old courtiers are bent and stiff. But they dance in the late
dusk a minuet again. You fear all the time their stiffness and age
will prevent them, but they dance it, not for the young man, but for
themselves and for their King. How poignant it was, how terrible!
Like ghosts at Ekaterinburg.

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