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From the very first they had to endure strange privations for princes. They had not a sufficient supply of clothes; the little dauphin, in particular, would have been wholly unprovided, had not the English embassadress, Lady Sutherland, whose son was of a similar age and size, sent in a stock of such as she thought might be wanted.
"O! an embassadress, then?" "Something in that capacity, my lord." "Then I must be on my sharps, for I am told you are a keen one. But tell me do you sleep with one eye open, as I do?" "Indeed, my lord," she replied, laughing, "I sleep as other people do, with both eyes shut." "Well, then, what's your proposal? and, mark me, I'm wide awake."
I will tell you this, and more when we met; and am always your affectionate A.P." "I think I am aware of what you were about to tell me," the major said, with a most courtly smile and bow to Pen's embassadress, "It was a very great kindness of your ladyship to think of bringing me the news. How well you look! How very good you are! How very kind you have always been to that young man!"
"The young English duchess is lovely, but too sad," said an embassadress, as the hostess joined her. "Ah! yes, poor child! lost her father and mother within a few weeks of each other," answered Lady C.
He appeared much perturbed and harassed, and in reply to inquiries touching his health, answered that he was "completely shaken up, and unnerved, by a very stormy and disagreeable interview held that afternoon with the child of his wayward daughter Ellice. "When witness asked: "Did not the great beauty of the embassadress accomplish the pardon and restoration of the erring mother?"
Temples Swedes Embassadress, Lady Arlington; Lord George Barkeley's daughter, and many others I remember not; but all most excellently dressed in rich petticoats and gowns, and dyamonds, and pearls. After the Bransles, then to a Corant, and now and then a French dance; but that so rare that the Corants grew tiresome, that I wished it done. Only Mrs.
Remarks of Louis upon court etiquette. They are unanswerable. Conquest of Holland determined on. Henrietta embassadress to England. Louise Rénée. The bribe. Constant bickerings. Alliance between France and England. Festivities thereon. Maria Theresa. Vivacity of Henrietta. Henrietta poisoned. Intense suffering. Arrival of the king. Death scene of Henrietta. Suspicion of Louis.
"I promised the embassadress de Sardaigne I would come early, as she is to present me to a relative, and, as you know, we must first visit that enchanted palace you spoke of, in all its details. This is an odd time for such a visit, it is true; but I admit I have a weakness or, rather, a passion, for anything odd. Originality is such a rare, charming thing!"
Temples Swedes Embassadress, Lady Arlington; Lord George Barkeley's daughter, and many others I remember not; but all most excellently dressed in rich petticoats and gowns, and dyamonds, and pearls. After the Bransles, then to a Corant, and now and then a French dance; but that so rare that the Corants grew tiresome, that I wished it done. Only Mrs.
There were two influences, money and beauty, which were omnipotent with the contemptible Charles II. Henrietta, the wife of Philip, was sent as embassadress to the court of her brother. The whole French court escorted her to the coast. The pomp displayed on this occasion surpassed any thing which had heretofore been witnessed in France.