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Still, the weather came over splendid enough by noon, and they knew it was going to. Where are your butts? You see, young maiden queens go further afield than old ones. The latter take but a short flight for choice." "There they are," said Grimbal, pointing to a row of thatched hives not far off. "So that should be an old queen, by your showing. Is she there?" "I fancy so by the look of them.
"Silence!" cried the count. "But why, silence?" said De Wardes; "it is a highly creditable circumstance for the French nation. Are not you of my opinion, Monsieur de Bragelonne?" "To what circumstance do you allude?" inquired De Bragelonne with an abstracted air. "That the English should render homage to the beauty of our queens and our princesses."
From the narrative, Mr Wright appears to have been engaged in the expedition and on board the Victory . Churchill, III. 161. The right honourable the Earl of Cumberland, intending to cruize against the enemy, prepared a small fleet of four ships only at his own charges, one of which was the Victory belonging to the queens royal navy.
It seems as if such a great hollow quarry of rock would strike a chill through every tenant, but modern improvements reach even the palaces of kings and queens, and the regulation temperature of the castle, or of its inhabited portions, is fixed at sixty-five degrees of Fahrenheit. The royal standard was not floating from the tower of the castle, and everything was quiet and lonely.
The directing committees are presided over by those whom flunkeys call princes of the blood. Emperors and queens lavishly patronize the national committees. But it is not to this patronage that the success of the organization is due. It is to the thousand local committees of each nation; to the activity of individuals, to the devotion of all those who try to help the victims of war.
Her dead mother had inhabited these pleasant rooms, and when the princess was grown up it made the king happy to feel that she was near him; so the beautiful house of the wife who had too early departed, was given up to her, and at the same time, as she was his eldest daughter, many privileges were conceded to her, which hitherto none but queens had enjoyed.
"I am the Phantom of Pride!" said a third voice "For me humanity scales the height of ambition for my sake king's and queens occupy uneasy thrones, and surround themselves with pomp and panoply for me men lie and cheat and wrong their neighbours for me the homes that should be happy are laid waste for me false laws are made and evil conquers good I am but a Shadow and the world takes me for the Sun!
It is said that Maria Leczinska had decided that this place should continue vacant, the superintendent having so extensive a power in the houses of queens as to be frequently a restraint upon their inclinations.
Masculine in the force and vigor of her understanding, she was feminine in all her instincts, proper, amiable, and gentle; a woman whom everybody loved and everybody respected, even to kings and queens. Hannah More was born in a little village near Bristol, 1745, and her father was the village schoolmaster.
The little house at Passy could have been put down inside the great entrance hall, but it was a trim little habitation, where on a minute scale all the refinements and niceties of life were observed, and income and expenditure were so well balanced that there was always a margin to the good; but the Misses O'Shaughnessy, who bore themselves as queens in the neighbourhood, and were treated with truly loyal deference, owned hardly a decent gown between them, and were seriously exercised about spending an extra half-crown on a Christmas dinner!
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