A Miracle of Love

Prince Nicolo of Vienz is irritated by his family and his Prime Minister continually begging him to be married for the sake of hiscountry and to prevent it being taken over by a neighbour. Hefinally agrees to meet Princess Marziale, the daughter of the ruler of Bassanz. However when she arrives, the Prince learns by accident that she is very much in love with the Comte who had been sent to escorther to Vienz. Because the Prince has no wish to marry anyone, least of all someone who is in love with another man, he runs away to Venice without anyone, except his valet, Texxo, knowing that he isleaving the Palace. He orders Texxo to look after the horses at ahotel, while he hires a gondola to explore Venice. On his way down one of the canals the Prince is suddenly aware that a young girl isleaning out of the window of a grand house. Then he sees to hissurprise that she is deliberately letting herself down by a rope intothe canal. Thinking quickly he moves his gondola so that she fallsinto it and she begs him to take her away before anyone sees what hashappened. How the Prince then finds that the girl he has rescuedis incredibly beautiful and extremely intelligent. And how they set off on a thrilling adventure, knowing only each others? Christiannames and how they eventually fall in love is all told in this unusalromantic story by BARBARA CARTLAND.