| Show Dullness of Court Life Thomas Creevey who lived in the early part of the nineteenth century has presented some queer pictures of English court life During the reign of King William Wllliam IV Creevey wrote r The Greys had Just come from Windsor castle Lady Grey in her own distressed manner said she was really more dead than alive She said all the boring she had ever endured endured en en- dured before was literally nothing compared with her misery of the he two preceding nights She hoped she never should see a mahogany table again she was so tired with the one that the king and the queen the Duchess Duchess Duch Duch- ess of ot Gloucester Princess Augusta Mme Lieven and herself had sat around for hours the q queen een knitting or netting a a. purse the king sleeping and occasionally waking for the purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of s saying Exactly so maam ma'am a and d then sleeping again The queen was cold as Ice lee to Lady Grey till the moment she she came away when she could afford to be a little civil at getting getting get get- ting quit of or her |
