The Old Court Suburb; Or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical, And Anecdotical 2
The Old Court Suburb; Or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical, And Anecdotical 2
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
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Lord Grantham. Ah ! dere is my Lord Hervey in your Majesty's gallery ; he is in de frock and de bob, or he should have come in."* * Lord Qnmthain was another xiAtandized Frenchman. Digitized by VjOOQIC A LEVEE. 227 Queen. Mon dieu ! My Lord Grantham, you are mad! Lord Grantham. He is dere, all so live as he was ; and he play de trick, to see as we should all say. Queen. Then he is mad. — Allons voir qu'est ce que c'est que tout ceci. [Let's go and see what it's all about.] [Exeunt omnes. In the... course of this drama, the editor of the ''Memoirs" has been obliged to omit Digitized by VjOOQIC 228 hervey's baseness. some passages, as being too indeceDt for modern eyes. So much for the equivocal part that Queen Caroline is made to perform, even in a piece intended to please her. What would she have thought of the uncommunicated scenes at Court, in the rest of the "Memoirs," where, in spite of the good things still said of her, and of the bio- grapher's professed devotedness to her memory, her vanities are exposed, her se- cretest confidences betrayed, the spirit of her self-sacrifices to her husband converted into artifice and ambition, and the personal infirmities, which she preferred death to mentioning, disclosed, ridiculed, and made offensive ?
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