The Girl King Page #5

[LAUGHTER]

[LAUGHS/BREATHING HEAVILY]

Time for prayers, Your Majesty.

Nature is devious,

when it comes to desire.

We must not

let her have her way.

Dear God, let discernment

and doubt be my guides.

- Amen.

- Amen.

By the way,

that gown was for you.

I meant to tell you,

from now on,

I will have a private audience

with whomever I please...

- I don't think...

- And, whenever I please.

Good night, Chancellor.

I delivered your instructions

for the expansion

of the Fallon mines.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Johan is afraid that

an army that doesn't share

our peaceful aspirations

is about to invade Prague.

Prague?

Yes.

Isn't that where Emperor

Rudolph keeps his treasures?

Yes.

They say the treasures

include priceless rare books.

The most beautiful

paintings of all time and...

A collection of animals,

never seen in this

part of the world before.

- Yes.

- They also say...

He has an unholy Bible.

A Bible written

by the devil himself.

[SIGHS]

Prague...

[LAUGHS]

Concentrate...

[KNOCKING]

Count Oxenstierna.

Johan!

Hey...

[LAUGHS/SIGHS]

I'm so happy to see you again.

I'm glad to hear that.

An official portrait, Countess.

You're spoiled.

Et voil!

The humanists

are here by the door.

The stoics...

by the windows.

And...

The library

of the humanist Grotius

will arrive soon.

Can you imagine!

Forty-eight cartloads of books!

150,000 manuscripts...

This new library could hold

500,000 books and treatises.

Nourishment for

our beloved Sweden.

The most

beautiful garden of all.

Did you really miss me...

while I was away?

I told Countess Sparre you are

the man who is dearest to me.

Let me read to you...

Not this one,

this one is in Greek.

Hum...

- And this one in...

- Arabic.

Of course...

And this one in Spanish.

Ah!

At last, here's one

in our language.

I'm listening.

The Elliptical Trajectory of the

, by Kepler.

[SIGHS]

Good Lord...

An official portrait

for Countess Sparre

in a whore's gown?

It's the gown you sent

to Kristina as a present

while you were away.

I sent a gown?

To Kristina?

Several gowns.

[LAUGHS]

For Kristina?

18, to be honest.

Hmm..

Why is the countess wearing it?

I don't know ask her!

[MUMBLES]

Women...

[CHUCKLES]

We have to maintain

total domination,

over the Baltic Sea

at all costs.

But I promised the Germans

we would leave them

three provinces

with access to the shore!

Emperor Marcus Aurelius said:

"The world is in

perpetual transformation

and life is a mere opinion."

Translation, please?

Nothing is unalterable.

You intend to break the

promise I made to the Germans...

The negotiations

are taking too long.

We worked day and night to grant

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