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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

Axel stood absolutely stunned. He continued to notice nobody but followed his
fair lady with his eyes and his heart, which she had conquered so effortlessly... He
was absolutely oblivious to the admiring glances which young beautiful ladies
constantly cast at him and did not return their shining and beckoning smiles.

Axel was truly a handsome man, "both inside and out" as they say. He was tall
and elegant and had enormous serious grey eyes, always polite, restrained and modest,
which attracted both women and men. A smile rarely lit his regular serious features,
but when it happened, Axel’s charm was absolutely irresistible... Therefore the ladies’
increased attention toward him was natural, but, to their regret, Axel was interested in
only one creature in the whole world – his fascinating and magnificent Queen...

Count Axel Fersen Marie Antoinette
– Will they be together? – I could not wait to know. – They both are so handsome!
Stella just gave a sad smile and "submerged" us in the next "episode" of this
unusual and very touching story.

We found ourselves in a very comfortable, fragrant little summer garden. A
luxurious park, splendidly well-groomed and decorated with numerous statues,
surrounded us with green for as far as we could see and in the distance there was a
stunningly enormous stone palace which looked like a small city. Only this cosy
garden, totally protected from indelicate strangers’ glances gave a feeling of real
comfort and some warm, "homely" beauty in the middle of all this slightly oppressing
grandiosity...
A dizzyingly-sweet fragrance of blooming acacias, roses and something which I
could not define soared in the air, being intensified by the heat of the summer evening.
Enormous cups of gently-pink water-lilies and the snow-white "coats" of lazy, ready
to fall asleep, majestic swans were reflected in the pure surface of a little pond, as in
a mirror. A beautiful young couple promenaded along a narrow path around the pond.

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