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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 207
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Diary Of Mary Countess Of Wales Cowjper ...
Every page of the diary is full of frequent remarks and _s taken triking up comments with , the upon estrangement men and manners between , and George many I . pages and the are
Prince of Wales , and the undignified squabbles which agitated the royal household . A reconciliation was at length effected ; here are Lady Cowper ' s remarks upon
itbishop "I was who called was b entirel y the Princess kept out into of the this closet I wished to seal a the letter Prince to the joy Arch and
comfort , of what had been y doing . He embraced . and kissed me five or six timesand with his usual heartiness when he means sincerely . He said he
heart knew , the so well part I he took was in sure all I his was good leased or ill with fortune this . , and The he Princess knew burst my good out p
occasions into a loud . ' laug All , h the , and town said , , feignedl 'So ! I y think or unfei you gnedl two y always , transported kiss . upon I kissed great Lord Cowper at coming homesaid to him' WellI 'thank God head
is your own , and that ' s more than ; one could be , sure of , two months your ago . '" This was followed hy a public demonstration , which is well
describedbe " put At night off . The m the King drawing spoke -room not , though to the my Prince face nor was none swelled of his : it friends could but not
time the Duchess she said of / Shrewsbury e snis venue , who Sire spoke pour once faire in ma vai cour n ; but et je the la second veux _Jaire came ? in It so happened th , all Lady kept at Essex the , bottom Rohartes , of was the room in the for circle fear , when of her our wh folks ich
made the , whole ey thing look like two armies drawn up in , battle array ; , for the - King court ' s behind court was him . all The at the Prince top of looked the room down , behind and the behaved King , and prodi the ious Prince well ' s .
The King cast an angry look that way every now , and then ; and g one could not a foot hel the p thinking cat sets 'twas her like back a little and is dog read and to a cat fl — at whenever him . Such the dog a crowd stirs up y y
was It had never , been seen used , for to keep not the only drawing , curiosity -rooms but interest so empty had for broug some ht it time together there . was hardly six women at onceto shew the necessity of a reconciliation , and
that the people were disgusted , . " , This was hollow enough , but the birthday gathering was , if
possible , worse" The birthday of our most gracious King . In the evening we waited on
being the Prin greatl cess y increased to court , where by our was new one Lords of and the Masters greatest of crowds the _South I ever SeaS saw j who , it . had much more court made to them than the Ministers themselves . At
night we all went in the same train . The Duke of Newcastle had got drunk crow for our d all sins the ; so nig the ht . Princess The Duchess ' s ladies of had Shrewsbury no places , but downri stood ght in scolded the heat aloud and
Princess about it , 's and famil he y , told which her th , ey for did conclusion not keep , , th but at that places ladies were of provided the town for came the the and town took them for us . 'Twas There not was his so fault great , and a crowd he could and not we turn were out so ill the used ladies that of
four of us went . away , and left only Lady Dorset , in _waiting . It was , plain we of the were doug to " hty be used articles thus ; of and reconciliation I am almost . tempted Kendal to and think Kielmansegg it was also very one
'Civil to me . Newcastle stood before me both morning and night . If I had
ever iiot seen to turn his his face back I should upon have those known he has it any had obligations . been him , to it . heing " his peculiar
Notices Of Books. 207
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 207
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/63/
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