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Updated: June 7, 2025
Avoir le tour was said in French; this circumstance of English etiquette having, probably, been borrowed from some old French folly. Lady Josiana, a virgin peeress as Elizabeth had been a virgin queen, led sometimes in the City, and sometimes in the country, according to the season an almost princely life, and kept nearly a court, at which Lord David was courtier, with many others.
Where a woman is vulnerable, on the side of pity, for instance, which so readily turns to love, Josiana was not. Not that she was unfeeling. The ancient comparison of flesh to marble is absolutely false.
He had not lain in ambush in vain. He was the rock, Josiana was the waif. Josiana was about to be dashed against Barkilphedro, to his intense villainous ecstasy. He was clever in the art of suggestion, which consists in making in the minds of others a little incision into which you put an idea of your own.
Lewis de Duras, Earl of Faversham, an Englishman with a Frenchman's wit, looked at Mohun and smiled. "That is a woman I should like to marry!" exclaimed Lord Mohun. The lords around them overheard the following dialogue between Duras and Mohun: "Marry the Duchess Josiana, Lord Mohun!" "Why not?" "Plague take it." "She would make one very happy." "She would make many very happy."
Nowadays England, whose Loyola is named Wesley, casts down her eyes a little at the remembrance of that past age. She is vexed at the memory, yet proud of it. These fine ladies, moreover, knew Latin. From the 16th century this had been accounted a feminine accomplishment. Lady Jane Grey had carried fashion to the point of knowing Hebrew. The Duchess Josiana Latinized.
Corleone Lodge was a Florentine palace of brick and stone, with a marble colonnade, built on pilework, at Windsor, at the head of the wooden bridge, and having one of the finest courts in England. In the latter palace, near Windsor Castle, Josiana was within the queen's reach. Nevertheless, Josiana liked it.
Anne, having this inferior blood in her veins, felt herself but half royal, and Josiana, having come into the world quite irregularly, drew closer attention to the incorrectness, less great, but really existing, in the birth of the queen. The daughter of mésalliance looked without love upon the daughter of bastardy, so near her. It was an unpleasant resemblance.
Josiana entered her house feeling very spiteful, supped in a bad humour, had the spleen, dismissed every one except her page, then dismissed him, and went to bed while it was yet daylight. When she arrived she had learned that Lord David Dirry-Moir was expected at Windsor the next day, owing to his having, whilst at sea, received orders to return immediately and receive her Majesty's commands.
One evening in winter there was in a meadow there, the gates of which were locked, a fight, at which Josiana, escorted by Lord David, was present. She had asked, "Are women admitted?" And David had responded, "Sunt fæminae magnates!" Liberal translation, "Not shopkeepers." Literal translation, "Great ladies exist. A duchess goes everywhere!" This is why Lady Josiana saw a boxing match.
She presented him to Lord Dirry-Moir, gave him a shelter in the servants' hall among her domestics, retained him in her household, was kind to him, and sometimes even spoke to him. Barkilphedro felt neither hunger nor cold again. Josiana addressed him in the second person; it was the fashion for great ladies to do so to men of letters, who allowed it.
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