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MISS CORNELIA KNIGHT. 157
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Edward ! Alas ! for the gay and gallant Young Pretender , who rode following from Holyrood him with with deli the bri ht g ! ht His eyes wife of the however fairest acknowled ladies in ged Scotland that
g , , he had one good quality—he never betrayed a secret , and never disclosed who had belonged to his party until after their death , nor
would he ever listen to ill-natured things said of people . He once crossed over into England after the rebellion , and was in London ,
but he would never mention in what year . The Countess , however , was pretty sure that it was in the year after the rebellion .
She iven was to wrong Commander , however d ' Olomieu , for we that have he it was on his in Eng own land authority in 1752 , as . g In 1785 the Knights left Rome , for Naples . The first thing
Cornelia noticed was the dress of the common people , which " was women very sli wore ght , their thoug hair h very in the of 6 st en le exceeding of antiue ly sta p t ic ues turesque and none . The of yq
them had any stays . Ladies even of the highest rank , went about with scrupulous only a as ribbon to eti tie quette d round A their black head petticoat , and seeme and d a by mantle no means that .
. those covered of the the whole lowest fig orders ure w . " g A eneral gain l to y worn Marseilles by all , women Avignon , exc , and ept and
dirt Nismes y town went upon the wandering the rushing ladies Rhone , and . even "We remember to Vienne , Vienne a quaint -well ,
up on a Roman damp nig temp ht in le March surrounded , but six b months y tumble ago _-doim , when looke houses d the utterl old , patched some of
which in Diary they the remaine gathering appeared it is recorded d till to darkness date the that spring from . _" she Yet the of Middle it made 1789 pleased ; there A and g the _^ s in the , tr Lad _a acquaintance vellers y C . so Camp w y ell dreary b of that ell an 's
old M . Loriotwith a white ribbon in his button-hole , and a goodhumored countenance , which became ten times more beaming upon _,
our as he informing called her him , that when , I he was made acquainted the inquiry with if I knew her . the e Ah Lad ! ' y said K .,
he * she is an excellent , lady ; she lived here eighteen months , and made , drawings of all the ruins in this most nei amiable ghborhood . She had Then a
he very showed cross mother me two , of but Miss was K herself . ' s gifts a to himself—a pocket person -book . ' and snuff-box—of whichwith some Derbyshire spar , ho seemed very
, proud French In . " 1791 princesses Miss , Kni daug ght hters was to again Louis in XV Rome ., who declined , and were saw to lod take the ged the old at
Cardinal de Bernis ' . " The cardinal , having he oath still of alleg kept iance up his to the Friday republic evenings , was courteous ' no _eonversazionz longer and ambassador , affable at which . , Mde but the . princesses appearedand were
Adelaide still retained , traces of that very beauty which had distinguished In her the in expression her youth , of and her there countenance was great . vivacit Madame y in Victoire her manners had also and of
& a agreeable face , much good sense , and great sweetness temper _.
Miss Cornelia Knight. 157
MISS CORNELIA KNIGHT . 157
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/13/
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