Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay ...H. Colburn, 1842 |
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Seite 31 - From that time, if Mrs. Schwellenberg is alone, I never quit her for a minute, till I come to my little supper at near eleven. Between eleven and twelve my last summons usually takes place, earlier and later occasionally. Twenty minutes is the customary time then spent with the Queen : half an hour, I believe, is seldom exceeded. I then come back, and after doing whatever I can to forward my dress for the next morning, I go to bed — and to sleep, too, believe me : the early rising, and a long day's...
Seite 29 - When she observes that I have run to her but half dressed, she constantly gives me leave to return and finish as soon as she is seated. If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed or not ; but at all times she never forgets to send me away while she is powdering, with a consideration not to spoil my clothes, that one would not expect belonged to her high station. Neither does she ever detain me without making a point of reading here and there some little paragraph...
Seite 28 - By eight o'clock, or a little after, for she is extremely expeditious, she is dressed. She then goes out to join the king, and be joined by the princesses, and they all proceed to the king's chapel in the Castle, to prayers, attended by the governesses of the princesses, and the king's equerry. Various others at times attend ; but only these indispensably. I then return to my own room to breakfast. I make this meal the. most pleasant part of the day ; I have a book for my companion, and I allow myself...
Seite 63 - An arch little smile, and a nearer approach, with her lips pouted out to kiss me. I could not resist so innocent an invitation; but the moment I had accepted it, I was half afraid it might seem, in so public a place, an improper liberty : however, there was no help for it. She then took my fan, and having looked at it on both sides, gravely returned it me, saying, " O ! a brown fan!" The king and queen then bid her curtsey to Mrs. Delany, which she did most gracefully, and they all moved on; each...
Seite 130 - K L happy ; and happy in the success of those studies which would render a mind less excellently formed presumptuous and arrogant. The King has not a happier subject than this man, who owes wholly to His Majesty that he is not wretched : for such was his eagerness to quit all other pursuits to follow astronomy solely, that he was in danger of ruin, when his talents, and great and uncommon genius, attracted the King's patronage.
Seite 62 - ... the parade, and turning from side to side to see everybody as she passed ; for all the terracers stand up against the walls, to make a clear passage for the royal family the moment they come in sight. Then followed the King and Queen, no less delighted with the joy of their little darling.
Seite 354 - Seduction/' a very clever piece, but containing a dreadful picture of vice and dissipation in high life, written by Mr. Miles Andrews, with an epilogue — 0, such an epilogue ! I was listening to it with uncommon attention, from a compliment paid in it to Mrs. Montagu, among other female writers; but imagine what became of my attention when I suddenly was struck with these lines, or something like them : — " Let sweet Cecilia gain your just applause, Whose every passion yields to Reason's laws.
Seite 48 - ... with no other attendant than his single equerry. ' The poor Queen went with him, pale and silent, — the Princesses followed, scarce yet commanding their tears. In the evening, just as usual, the King had his concert, but it was an evening of grief and horror to his family ; nothing was listened to, scarce a word was spoken ; the Princesses wept continually; the Queen, still more deeply struck, could only, from time to time, hold out her hand to the King, and say,
Seite 32 - At first, I felt inexpressibly discomfited by this mode of call. A bell ! — it seemed so mortifying a mark of servitude, I always felt myself blush, though alone, with conscious shame at my own strange degradation. But I have philosophized myself now into some reconcilement with this manner of summons, by reflecting that to have some person always sent would be often very inconvenient, and that this method is certainly less an interruption to any occupation I may be employed in, than the entrance...
Seite 325 - The shout which ensued did not at all interfere with the steadiness of his further detail. ' And there's another man, Sir, a great stout fellow, Sir, as ever you saw — Dr. Gibbon of the Temple — I broke his head, too, Sir ; I don't know if he remembers it.