Side lights on English history; (1900) (14780096851)

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Title: Side lights on English history;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
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Publisher: London : G. Bell and sons New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lay withher eyes fixed at a point in the air . . .the King with a loud and quick voicesaid to her, Mon Dicu^ g?icst-ce-g?ievons regardez? Coinme7it peat-onfixer ses yeiix comme qa? Vos vc?/xIessonblcJit a ceux (f tin veau a quio7i vient de couper la g07ge / . . .About ten oclock on Sunday night—the King being in bed and asleep on thefloor at the feet of the Queens bed, andthe Princess Emily in a couch-bed in acorner of the room—the Queen beganto rattle in her throat; and Mrs. Purcelgiving the alarm that she was expiring,all in the room started up. PrincessCaroline was sent for, and Lord Her-vey, but before the last arrived theQiieen was just dead. All she saidbefore she died, was, I have now gotan asthma. Open the window. . . .The King kissed the face and handsof the lifeless body several times, butin a few minutes left the Qiieens apart-ment. . . . The grief he felt for the(^ueen, as it was universally knownand showed a tenderness of which theworld thought him before utterly in-
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( See page 253.) King George II. and Queen Caroline 251 capable, made him for some time morepopular and better spoken of than hehad ever been before this incident, orthan I believe he ever will be again.He was thoroughly unaffected on thisoccasion, and by being so (as odd as itmay seem to say this) perplexed thosewho were about him. 3. Lord Chesterfields character ofQiieen Caroline. (Works, Vol. II. P- 437-) Qiieen Caroline had lively, prettyparts, a quick conception, and somedegree of female knowledge; andwould have been an agreeable womanin social, if she had not aimed at beinga great one in public life. . . . Cunning and perfidy were the meansshe made use of in business, as allwomen do, for want of better. Sheshowed her art most in her managementof the King, whom she governed abso-lutely, by a seeming complaisance andobedience to all his humours ; she evenfavoured and promoted his gallanteries.She had a dangerous ambition, for itwas attended with courage, and, if shehad lived much