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inelegant ; handsome indeed in face ( the person we could not so well see ); smiling , selfpossessed but highly pleased ; looking healthy ( for she had
not the pale look so often attributed to her ); and crowned , besides her diadem , with a profusion of light brown tresses ; altogether presenting an aspect luxuriant , good-humoured , and highly agreeable .
It was the Guelph face under its very best aspect , and improved , if we mistake not , with a straitness and substance of forehead , certainly not common to that portion of her race . We had fancied her darker , from the recollection of her
when a child , though , at the same time , more like her father than mother . She now appeared still like her father , with a mixture of something more gladsome and open-mouthed ( the upper lip , we believe , shews the teeth while speaking ) ; but her crown seemed to rest on a forehead
derived from her mother and maternal uncle ( Leopold ) and we thought , looked all the securer and happier for it . This may be hypercriticism ; and foreheads are not alwavs the
wiser for being strait and deep . There is a Guelph living ( the Duke of Sussex ) who is unquestionably a man of sense , whatever the physiognomists or
phrenologists may have to say to his brow , which we never saw . Perhaps there is another ( the Duke of Cambridge ) . At all events , the latter has shown no sympathy with the arbitrary
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follies of a third , who seems bent upon proving that he has no brain at all , or only enough to follow the impulses of a wilful and energetic physiqwe , that is running his head against a
wall . Plenty of will , it must be confessed , seems to be the inheritance of all theGuelphs , if we are to judge from evidences of countenance , which the world have generally agreed to
regard as such ; nor is the young Queen ' s face wanting to the family likeness in this particular . The good or evil of the result depends upon whether she has affections and
understanding ; and hitherto , thank God , as far as can be seen by the public , she has afforded evidences of both . With understanding , what would be obstinacy , is convertible into firmness . With affections , wha
would have been love of power for its own sake , may become the wish to do good and to diffuse happiness . What a problem for the reflecting portion of the spectators to solve , as they stood lookin < r at her on the occasion
before us ! How affecting to analyze one ' s own wonder as we gazed , —to think of the causes of one s curiosity ! How various
are the lights ( such was the natural reflection ) in which this spectacle may be regarded ; and how entirely it depends for any real dignity on the good connected with it .
Is it a mere show ? Are these servants , plastered with gold , these horses all pride and ribbons , these soldiers
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The Queen * 81
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/9/
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