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He was an unprincipled and cruel tyrant, and the chief business of his life seemed to be selecting and marrying new queens, making room for each succeeding one by discarding, divorcing, or beheading her predecessor. There were six of them in all, and, with one exception, the history of each one is a distinct and separate, but dreadful tragedy.
Queens of fashion, professional beauties, authors and authoresses, ambassadors, philosophers, discoverers, actors every one who was famous or even notorious; who had been anywhere or had done anything, from a successful speech in Parliament to a hazardous leap at the Aquarium jostled one another on the wide staircase and in the gravely ornate drawing-rooms.
The Wichwezi queen met her majesty with her head held very high, and instead of permitting me to sit on my box of grass, threw out a bundle of grass for that purpose. All conversation was kept between the two queens; but her Wichwezi majesty had a platter of clay-stone brought, which she ate with great relish, making a noise of satisfaction like a happy guinea-pig.
Canada, with all its sharp, thorns, she called her paradise, and the company of her uncouth little Indian pupils, she prized a thousand times beyond that of the greatest and highest of earthly queens.
I dedicated a slight piece written for the violin to Doré. This was not lost as the one to Ingres was, but it would be entirely unknown had not Johannes Wolf, the violinist of queens and empresses, done me the favor of placing it in his repertoire and bringing his fine talent to its aid. Hébert was the most serious of the painter-violinists.
"How to economise space in a small bedroom." For a women's paper. "Where some Queens sleep." About the sleeping apartments of sovereigns. Ample material in biographies and periodical literature. "Does a woman require more sleep than a man?" For the silly season. "Is breakfast in bed enjoyable?" Ditto. You walk downstairs. "Some famous staircases." "Stair-climbing as a form of indoor exercise."
Then I caught influenza and spent dull days in bed. Nothing can be worse for an influenza victim than chess, but I suppose my warders did not realize how much I suffered under the game. Anyhow, I played it all day and dreamed of it all night a riot of games in which all the people I knew moved diagonally and up and down, took each other, and became queens.
How much better than all these agitations about princely bridegrooms! and broken lances and queens of beauty seemed to fade into insignificance, or to be only incidents in the tumult of secular life and worldly struggle, and her spirit quailed at the anticipation of the journey she had once desired, the gay court with its follies, empty show, temptations, coarsenesses and cruelties, and the strange land with its new language.
My father told me that, as far as I could, I was to stand by and watch over my mother in his absence, and I wouldn't forsake my post for all the kings and queens in the world; so there!" "Then I suppose if I try to escape you will give the alarm and betray me?" "I don't care what you suppose. But I shouldn't be such a sneak. I wish you would go, and not bother me.
'I should pity rather your queens and royal duchesses, which by law are condemned to groan in a crowd of nobles and courtiers, and do writhe with shame as, well as sorrow, being come of decent mothers, whereas these gipsy women have no more shame under their skins than a wolf ruth, or a hare valour. And, Bon Bec, quoth he, 'I espy in thee a lamentable fault.
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