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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...s of Paris, consisting of the temporal and spiritual peers of the original county, who had the right to advise with their chief, and to try the causes... ...iving real pain, and I liked him much better than his brother, the Duke of York, who was proud and sullen. Yet one could always trust the Duke, and th... ...d of course I was listening most anxiously for all I could gather about my new 16 Stray Pearls life. If I remember right, it was an envoy-extraordina... ...ver them, and birds’ nests in curi- ous places. My Viscount laughed with a new pleasure when I showed him the wren’s bright eye peeping out from her n... ... know them too well, my chil- dren, to be able to conceive how strange and new they seemed to me, accustomed as I was to our smooth broad Thames and t... ...and all the good news that we could hear from England was that the Duke of York had escaped in a girl’s dress, and was on board the fleet at helvoetsl... ...reat pleasure came to the Queen at this time in the arrival of the Duke of York, who made his way into Paris, and arriving in the midst of dinner, kne... ...f two most incongruous and dissimilar ones—namely, the angelic face of the Dutchess de Longueville when I had first seen her in her innocent, untainte...

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