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

CHAPTER X
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Chantrey says that all Lord Melbourne's face is very easy except the mouth.

The mouth, he says, is always the most difficult feature, and he can rarely satisfy himself with the delineation of any mouth, but Lord Melbourne's is so flexible and changeable that it is almost impossible to catch it.
[Footnote 102: For Vienna and Constantinople.] [Footnote 103: Samuel, son of William Wilberforce, at this date Archdeacon of Surrey, and chaplain to Prince Albert; afterwards, in 1844, appointed Bishop of Oxford, and eventually translated to the See of Winchester.] [Pageheading: MELBOURNE'S ADVICE] _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ SOUTH STREET, _1st October 1841._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty.

He received your Majesty's letter yesterday evening, and cannot express to your Majesty how much obliged he feels by your Majesty's taking the trouble to give him so much information upon so many points.

Ste Aulaire's hair-powder seems to make a very deep and general impression.[104] Everybody talks about it.

"He appears to be very amiable and agreeable," everybody says, but then adds, "I never saw a man wear so much powder." A head so whitened with flour is quite a novelty and a prodigy in these times.


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