The Secret Correspondence of Madame de Maintenon: With the Princess Des Ursins; from the Original Manuscripts in the Possession of the Duke de Choiseul. Tr. from the French, Volume 2 |
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Page 354 - ... five o'clock ; on hot days it would be later still when they left their houses, for they rise for the most part at eleven o'clock or midday, dine at two or three o'clock and then take a siesta ; when they are in the queen's room, after kneeling to kiss her hand, they sit upon the floor, for the most part without speaking. If Her Majesty and I did not keep up the conversation as much as possible, it would fall completely. One asks them if none of them dance, or sing, or play upon some instrument,...
Page 125 - WP VAN NESS. NATHANIEL PENDLETON, Esq. In the evening of the same day I received from him the following answer : No. XI June 26, 1804. SIR, I have communicated the letter which you did me the honour to write to me of this date, to General Hamilton.
Page 109 - ... arriving at Saint-Cyr, one of the ladies announced it to her by saying, ' Madam, all the house is at prayers in the choir ;' the widow raised her hands to heaven, and, weeping, went to join the congregation. In a letter, dated from her retreat, ten days after her husband had expired, she says, ' I have seen the King die like a saint and a hero ; I have quitted the world which I disliked ; I am in the most agreeable retirement I can desire.
Page 310 - Asturias. \Ve must have nothing melancholy in his temperament, at least we must exert our utmost to prevent him from being of an ill-natured disposition. I have had a long conversation to-day with all the faculty, and they are agreed that nurses should be sent for from the country I have just mentioned, or old...