Show The Melancholy Victoria I I tho face is a clue to tho feelings En glands queen must be in melancholy mood She seems absorbed in moody thoughts and when something attracts her attention she lifts her head with a start as if in mind she had been far away Her face is habitually habit-ually spiritless dull She seems heavy When she drives nobody cheers her but the people stand silently to one side and a hat or two is lifted to which she pays no attention The English princes and princesses are a rather melancholy looking lot this autumn with the Prince of Wales half an invalid and blue as a whetstone the Princess of Wales ditto especially as to the blues the Princess Louise used up the Princess Henry of Battenberg sober and not robust the Duke of Clarence long facid and languid and the Duchess of Fife so delicate that when she appears in public she looks fitter to go to bed and have a cry EPH |