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Senator Sumner, as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, was the centre of a diplomatic circle, where all of the "great powers," and some of the smaller ones, were represented. Ladies from the rural districts were disappointed in not seeing the gorgeous court costumes, having forgotten that our court-dress is the undertaker-like suit of black broadcloth so generally worn.
Patrick's Hall is a fine apartment, but certainly does not deserve the name of magnificent, and is a very poor affair compared with the reception-saloons of third-rate continental princes. The Dublin season culminates, so far at least as the vice-regal entertainments go, in the ball given here on St. On such occasions it is de rigueur to wear a court-dress.
Now the pretty sinners may all go to sleep in peace. Now the young girls of Vienna may walk the streets without being asked whither they go, or whence they come. Reform! reform! But hark! there are the church-bells; I go to exhibit myself to my subjects. Come, let us away." "But your majesty has not made your toilet. The valets are now waiting with your Spanish court-dress in your dressing-room."
Cooper describes the ceremony the entrée of Charles X: "Le Roi, tall, decidedly graceful; the Dauphin to his right, the Dauphine to his left, and to her right the Duchess of Berri." Passing Cooper, he continues: "Near a little gate was an old man in strictly court-dress.
While negligently rolling his balls about he muttered these words: 'Do you ever see Bourrienne now? 'Yes, Sire, he sometimes dines with me on diplomatic reception-days, and he looks so droll in his old-fashioned court-dress, of Lyons manufacture, that you would laugh if you saw him. 'What does he say respecting the new regulation for the court-dresses? 'I confess he says it is very ridiculous; that it will have no other result than to enable the Lyons manufacturers to get rid of their old-fashioned goods; that forced innovations on the customs of a nation are never successful. 'Oh, that is always the way with Bourrienne; he is never pleased with anything. 'Certainly, Sire, he is apt to grumble; but he says what he thinks. 'Do you know, Duroc, he served me very well at Hamburg.
Stanhope. She was conscious that she had no right to lend this money to Lady Delacour, if her aunt had expressly desired that she should spend it only on her court-dress; but this had not distinctly been expressed when Mrs. Stanhope sent her niece the draft.
And when day-break dawned and the star of morn appeared in sheen and shone, he broke up the sitting and, dismissing the youths, donned his court-dress and leaving his house set out for the palace of the Caliph.
While negligently rolling his balls about he muttered these words: 'Do you ever see Bourrienne now? 'Yes, Sire, he sometimes dines with me on diplomatic reception-days, and he looks so droll in his old-fashioned court-dress, of Lyons manufacture, that you would laugh if you saw him. 'What does he say respecting the new regulation for the court-dresses? 'I confess he says it is very ridiculous; that it will have no other result than to enable the Lyons manufacturers to get rid of their old-fashioned goods; that forced innovations on the customs of a nation are never successful. 'Oh, that is always the way with Bourrienne; he is never pleased with anything. 'Certainly, Sire, he is apt to grumble; but he says what he thinks. 'Do you know, Duroc, he served me very well at Hamburg.
The latter had been sent off, express, with a kind consideration for the honor of Great Britain, to Prince Bob, who was at a villa of one of the royal family, in the neighborhood of Aggregation. I was greatly indebted to Noah, for his dexterity in helping me to a good fit with my court-dress.
Kaunitz was furious; but, without changing a muscle, he went on. "Farewell, my lords farewell, ladies! I must away to the post of duty." Another bend of the head, and he disappeared. The valets and hair-dresser were already buzzing around his dressing-room with court-dress and red stocking, but Kaunitz waved them all away, and called Hippolyte to arrange a curl of his hair that was displaced.
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