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It settles which of other people's favourites shall be chosen, on condition of abandoning its own favourite. A choice based on such self-denial can never be a firm choice it is a choice at any moment liable to be revoked. The events of 1858, though not a perfect illustration of what I mean, are a sufficient illustration.
But meanwhile " She picked up a thick book from the table, read the title idly: "'Secret Memoirs of the Favourites of the French Courts! Where on earth did you get this?" she asked, surprised. "Five Dollars Net," she mused, glancing through it. "How well I know this sort of rubbish! There are thousands of them on the market, exquisitely printed, beautifully bound, and just so much rot!
There were reasons which made him very unwilling to hand over Sam Brattle to the village constable. Sam had a mother and sister who were among the Vicar's first favourites in the parish; and though old Jacob Brattle, the father, was not so great a favourite, and was a man whom the Squire, his landlord, held in great disfavour, Mr. Fenwick would desire, if possible, to spare the family.
"She would not obey the Queen?" "She could not obey those whom the Queen favoured. Then the tyranny that broke her heart " The Queen interrupted her. "In very truth, but 'tis not in France alone that Queen's favourites grasp the sceptre and speak the word. Hath a Queen a thousand eyes can she know truth where most dissemble?"
Every thing was said or hinted that could exasperate her against her former favourites: for Mad. de Coulanges had made many enemies by engrossing an unreasonable share in the conversation; and Emilie by attracting too great a portion of attention by her beauty and engaging manners. Malice often overshoots the mark: Mrs.
The King had little time and no money to give to serve his own family and allies and the cause of Protestantism, but he could squander vast sums upon worthless favourites, and consume reams of paper on controverted points of divinity.
People come to his entertainments, too he can get anybody he wants from the duchesses down to the music-hall favourites, even if he likes to get up a conventional river party, with a spread down at that queer place of his you speak of the House by the Lock." "It is a queer place indeed," I echoed. "I wonder how he came by it?"
The people of London, receiving these tidings, would do nothing for the King, but broke open the Tower, let out all his prisoners, and threw up their caps and hurrahed for the beautiful Queen. The King, with his two favourites, fled to Bristol, where he left old Despenser in charge of the town and castle, while he went on with the son to Wales.
This last opera was not by Herve, but the American liked it and might be persuaded to produce it later on. 'It contained a part, he said, 'in which Kate would succeed in establishing herself one of London's favourites; but his praise of her singing and acting set her wondering if he were gulling her once more, or if he still believed in her.
In such pursuits he was moreover encouraged by the Queen-mother and her favourites; who, anxious to retain their power, did not make any effort to awaken him to a sense of what he owed to himself and to the kingdom over which he had been called upon to rule.
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