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Queen Victoria

CHAPTER III
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Lehzen, the Baron, Uncle Leopold, are unsubstantial shadows--the incidental supers of the piece.

Her paradise was peopled by two persons, and surely that was enough.

One sees them together still, a curious couple, strangely united in those artless pages, under the magical illumination of that dawn of eighty years ago: the polished high fine gentleman with the whitening hair and whiskers and the thick dark eyebrows and the mobile lips and the big expressive eyes; and beside him the tiny Queen--fair, slim, elegant, active, in her plain girl's dress and little tippet, looking up at him earnestly, adoringly, with eyes blue and projecting, and half-open mouth.

So they appear upon every page of the Journal; upon every page Lord M.is present, Lord M.is speaking, Lord M.is being amusing, instructive, delightful, and affectionate at once, while Victoria drinks in the honied words, laughs till she shows her gums, tries hard to remember, and runs off, as soon as she is left alone, to put it all down.

Their long conversations touched upon a multitude of topics.


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