The Princess Or the Beguine Author:Sydney Morgan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Original Publisher: printed for Richard Bentley Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com w... more »here you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Answer. " TO LADY FRANCES MOTTRAM. " I keep your page, dear child, to take this back, as I do not let my servants out on Sundays, except to church. I heard all about the tcena in the Round-room -- not from the inseparables, for I have not seen my husband or Lord Aubrey to-day. I had not come from church, when they looked in. I did hear it though, in full, from Lady Anastatia M'Query, just as I was getting into my chair, in the porch of St. James's, (like Clarissa, I am never too ill to go to church). She thrust her long scraggy neck down into the chair, and smelt so of garlic, (you know all the ladies M'Query eat Bologna sausages for breakfast,) that I have been obliged to have the chair fumigated; and caught fresh cold by letting the window down coming across the square. She was full of the scene last night. She said, that Sir Frederick actually dragged you away by the arm; that cousin Claude came to the rescue, and that the Princess clapped you on the back, and cried ' Courage, man enfant . r: and then, alluding to SirFrederick's plebeian origin, she exclaimed,' Hey ! mi Leddy Montressor, -- but the Duke is weel servit: a pretty alliance for Lady Frances de Vere ! what would you ha fra' a cat but her skin?' " Well, my child, this is all very bad, I allow. Such things give a ridieule incffapiblt '. but remember, no separation ! mind that. First, in a religious point of view, separation is sinful: as St. Paul says, in dear Mrs. Medlicot's ' Tracts ofTon,'' Let not the wife depart from the husband.' Besides, there is all the difference in the world, dear...« less