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MISS COBNEMA KNIGHT, 163
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with proper self-possession . Her dress was white and silver , and
she wore feathers for the first time . " The ball went off well , but next day the poor child is in trouble
thing and again ; is she going " severe had wrong _" things overheard . " " Then of the a the conversation Princess prince of takes Wales / ' and Miss , " particularly is Kni sure ght some aside for
-. the little says regard she had shown for her daughter as a child , and for having by her negligencein leaving her hands at liberty , allowed a
, mark of the _sinalUpox on Princess Charlotte's nose—an important misfortune , at which , the listener would have smiled had she not
"been horrified at the rest of the conversation . " He insisted also on Miss Knight talking to her charge of his regard for his daughter ,
as contrasted with her mother's feeling , to which the poor princess * mother replies that than " from she had the of prince late received , but that much their more _unfortiuiate kindness from quarrels her '
with each other rendered their testimonies of affection to her at all times We very wish precarious that our space . " would allow of our giving a much fuller
abstract of everything in these volumes relating to the young princess began to — be of mooted her misery , declaring when first that the if Lord subje Liverpool ct of her she mother or would the 's Chan trial not
cellor came to read her any communication about it , listen to it " for that in her eyes her mother must be innocent ;" then the blowing , over of the storm for a timeand the death of Mrs .
, and Gagarin mi , ht who be said had lived to be with the onl the y mother young princess she really from ever her knew infancy , and ,
whom g she nursed and tended with filial affection , carrying her in her arms to and fro in the sick roomand grieving after her loss so
, enter as to into be " the very low and for cons a long of the time " Orange afterwards marriage . " , Neither " against can which we pros
Princess Charlotte set her face steadily for a long time , but was at last not broug l ht and to finall say that when the the picture particularl of the y p hereditary lain and sickl prince y young was y
soldier ugy with ; his heart , y "boyish manner , made his appearance in person as usual , , , consented were the to notes be engaged and the to him interviews . Innumerable between henceforth father and ,
• daug British hter and , , royal forei aunts nobilit and uncles who were , and and various who thoug j ) ers ( ht mage themselves s in the y
gn , , determined obliged , to to have live a in _fingev Eng in land the ; her matter father . The , to say youn tlie g princess least of was it ,
preferred this delicate her point living tlie in Hollan contract d ; appears and on to the dismissed have negotiations been from broken regarding Warwick , and
House Miss Kni in the ght suddenl midst y of and the summaril fray . Then y it was that the Princess Charlotteafraid very of being a sort of State prisoner , and being
taken she was to to Cranbourne , see no one Lod but ge , the in the old midst queen of once Windsor a week Forest , tied , on where her
bonnet , slipped out of the house alone , and went off in n a 2 hackney
Miss Cobnema Knight, 163
MISS COBNEMA KNIGHT , 163
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/19/
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