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In April the Court returned to Buckingham Palace, when the Queen announced the marriage of the Princess Alice to the Privy Council It was communicated to Parliament, and was very favourably received. The Princess had a dowry of thirty thousand, and an annuity of six thousand pounds from the country. The Queen's birthday was celebrated at Osborne without the usual festivities.
She had even persuaded her husband that Gertrude ought to make a good marriage; and as he was able to give her an ample dowry, and was proud of her good looks, he himself was of opinion that she might do something rather brilliant, even if she did not realize her mother's fond dreams.
At the time of payment we can make mention of the fact that the dowry funds are put into it." "You've an answer for everything, old man," said Solonet, laughing. "You were really surpassing to-night; you beat us squarely." "For an old fellow who didn't expect your batteries of grape-shot, I did pretty well, didn't I?" "Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Solonet.
Jackson, with her pleasant home, could not rest from her work. Two novels came from her pen, Mercy Philbrick's Choice and Hetty's Strange History. It is probable also that she helped to write the beautiful and tender Saxe Holm Stories. It is said that Draxy Miller's Dowry and Esther Wynn's Love Letters were written by another, while Mrs.
Themistocles, on whom our mighty father bestowed the revenues of cities, died, rather than fight for him against Athens; and lo! here is a young Athenian, who refuses a maiden sought by the Persian prince, with a dowry richer than Pactolus.
"Did you wish to say anything?" he asked. The old Colonel, without moving his head, turned his sad gaze upon the surgeon, oh! so sad, and in a voice scarcely to be heard he murmured: "Three daughters to marry without a dowry! Three three !" Then he heaved a deep sigh, his blue eyes paled and became glassy. Colonel Lantz was dead. Do not despair, old military France!
At 19 he m. a pious young woman, whose only dowry appears to have been two books, the Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven and the Practice of Piety, by which he was influenced towards a religious life.
And in the letter which he wrote to the most Serene Infanta, Margaret of Sovoy, Dowager Duchess of Mantua, to invite her to take this Congregation under her protection, he says: "This Congregation does not solicit alms, but is established in such a manner that the ladies who enter it give a dowry in order to maintain the buildings, the sacristy, the chaplain, and to defray the expenses of illness, etc., either by means of a regular and perpetual income, or by some other way which cannot injure anyone or interfere in any possible manner with the payment of the taxes and subsidies due to his most Serene Highness the Duke.
"Did you wish to say anything?" he asked. The old Colonel, without moving his head, turned his sad gaze upon the surgeon, oh! so sad, and in. a voice scarcely to be heard he murmured: "Three daughters to marry without a dowry! Three three !" Then he heaved a deep sigh, his blue eyes paled and became glassy. Colonel Lantz was dead. Do not despair, old military France!
He had a most unpleasant recollection of the firmness and decision with which Jeanne had announced her views with regard to him, but he looked towards her again and the look was fatal. Jeanne was certainly a most desirable young person, quite apart from her dowry. "It may be as you say, Princess," he said. "I must leave her to you for a little time. You must talk to her.
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