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The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843)

CHAPTER VIII
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There was a blush on her cheek which made her look both handsomer and more interesting; and certainly she _did_ look as interesting and as handsome as any young lady I ever saw.
"I happened to stand behind the Duke of Wellington's chair, and caught her eye twice as she directed it towards him, which I fancy she did with a good-natured interest.

...The crowd, which was not great but very decent, I might almost say respectable, expressed their approbation of the Duke of Wellington and Sir R.Peel, and their disapprobation of the Ministers very loudly.

Lord John and Lord Normanby, they tell me, were positively hooted....

Lord Melbourne ...

seemed to me to look _careworn_, and on the whole the meeting had a sombre air."-- _Croker Papers_, ii.


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