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On the 27th of August the Court left for Balmoral, travelling for the most part by the Great Northern Railway, but not, as now, making a rapid night and day journey. On the contrary, the journey lasted three days, with pauses for each night's rest between. Starting from Osborne at nine, the Royal party reached Buckingham Palace at half-past twelve.
Some of the best of their kind were in the possession of Queen Victoria at Windsor and Balmoral, where Sir Edwin Landseer transferred their graceful forms to canvas. Among the more prominent owners of the present time are the Baroness Campbell von Laurentz, whose Rosemead Laura and Una are of superlative merit alike in outline, colour, style, length of head, and grace of action; Mrs.
There is a picturesque tower and garden in the front, with a high wooded hill; at the back there is a wood down to the Dee, and the hills rise all around." During the first stay of the Court at Balmoral, the Queen has chronicled the ascent of a mountain.
Trousers with gaiter fastenings below the knee are preferred by some women who put not their faith in straps alone, and knee-breeches are liked by some, but to wear knee breeches means to pay fifteen dollars for long riding-boots, instead of the modest seven or eight dollars which suffice to buy ordinary Balmoral boots.
On a certain day, for instance, flowers must be strewn on John Brown's monument at Balmoral; and the date of the yearly departure for Scotland was fixed by that fact. Inevitably it was around the central circumstance of death death, the final witness to human mutability that these commemorative cravings clustered most thickly.
In honour of it the baby, Princess Irene, whose godfathers were the officers and men of her father's regiment, received her name. This year Hanover ceased to be an independent state, and became annexed to Prussia. Dr. Norman Macleod has a bright little picture of an evening at Balmoral in 1866.
She gave cut this information in floods of bright talk she would pop a little bit of it into comments over a view of the Rialto, Venice, and, whilst she was brightly describing Balmoral Castle, she would say that her ideal husband would he one who could get her received at the British Court.
SALVATION: A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Crathie, Balmoral, before Her Majesty the Queen, on Sunday, Sept. 22d, 1850. CHEMISTRY NO MYSTERY: Being the Subject-matter of a Course of Lectures by Dr. Scoffeon. In 12mo. cloth lettered, price 5s. Third Edition, revised and corrected, In 12mo. cloth, price 5s. By George Walker, Esq. Ninth Edition. 12mo. cloth lettered, reduced to 5s.
Can you tell me how soon I shall have a new pair of Balmoral boots because of this money? If that were brought home to me I think it would enliven my gratitude." The squire, as he rode back to Guestwick, fell again from that animation, which Mrs Dale had described, into his natural sombre mood.
Among these was a young lady, apparently about nineteen, in a tight-fitting basque of black velvet, which showed her elegant figure to fine advantage, a skirt of garnet silk, looped up over a pretty Balmoral, and the daintiest imaginable pair of kid walking-boots.
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