- Count Oudoff, a fortune-hunting European nobleman, marries a wealthy American widow and brings his new wife and her pretty young daughter Lianne back to Paris. When word gets around that Lianne stands to inherit a good deal of money when her rich grandmother passes away, every gold-digging nobleman in Paris sets his sights on her, but she's waiting for a special "prince" to sweep her away. When her distant cousin Basil arrives from Amerca on a mission from her grandmother to investigate the young girl's situation, Lianne believes that she might have finally found the "prince" she has sought.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Robert Demarest married against his mother's will. When his daughter, Liane, is six years old, he dies and his wife migrates to Paris and there becomes the wife of Count Ivan Oudoff. Liane is reared in ultra-French society. Her childish imagination leads her to write fairy stories for her own delectation; as she grows to girlhood her mind develops along visionary lines. Count Oudoff surprises Liane in the act of composing one of. her fairy tales in which the heroine is referred to as "Princess Virtue," who is supposed to have three sweethearts: Prince Passion, Prince Desire and Prince Love. In Liane's fairy tale the Princess cannot decide between her three suitors and awaits the caprice of fate to aid her in her decision. The Count delights in chaffing his stepdaughter, taunts her mother with his ideas of her daughter's "genius" and tells the story to his friends as a good joke. Thus Liane, herself, becomes known in the salons as "Princess Virtue." When a newspaper in Boston carries reference to the sensation Liane is creating in Parisian society, the item falls under the gaze of Liane's grandmother. Mrs. Clara Judkins Demarest calls her distant relative, Basil Demarest, in consultation, shows him the flippant references to her granddaughter in the newspaper and commissions him to go to Paris and find out for her if the sneers of "society" are justly aroused by Liane's environment. Basil finds Liane has two suitors: Mons. Emil Carre and Baron Strensky. As a result of rivalry, Strensky challenges Carre to a duel and wounds his adversary when he might as readily have killed him. Under the code Carre withdraws his attentions. In Carre the girl has found Prince Passion. To her Strensky is Prince Desire, but she has finally found in Basil her long-sought Prince Love. Basil, however, has been faithfully fulfilling his mission; has been surfeited with the mockery of Parisian society, has formed his own opinions of Liane and her environment and is about to sail for America. While lunching, at Liane's suggestion, Basil and Strensky clash. Liane discovers that Strensky is continuing "an affair" with Mlle. Sari, and has arranged a "farewell lunch" in anticipation of his announced marriage to Liane. The American girl has enticed Basil to the same café at which Strensky has staged his luncheon to Mlle. Sari, -and the men clash. Strensky challenges Basil; the American toes the scratch and Liane throws herself upon Basil at the crucial moment, begging him not to "kill the man (Strensky) she loves." The duel ends in a fiasco; Basil takes the steamer for home. When he is in mid-ocean he discovers Liane is a passenger on the same ship. The obvious follows; Prince Love finds his mate.
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