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In those days the Royal family inhabited the top story only, while the
ground floor was filled with wood for the winter. Just round the corner
was the old pink palace, now used as a riding school. It had been the
first place in Montenegro to possess a billiard-table. So,
billiard-tables being rarer and more curious than kings--the palace had
been called the BILLIADO.
The Queen, whatever agility she may have possessed once when navigating
banisters, is now a sedate and domestic person, and doesn't hold with
bluestockings, notwithstanding the "Higher Education" of some of her
daughters.
The story goes that once when the King was away she inaugurated one of
those thorough-paced spring cleanings dear to most women's hearts;
ordered the dining-room furniture into the street, and superintended the
beating of it. Women hold a poor position in Montenegro, but one of
character can carry all before her. A well-known English nurse was
managing a hospital in Cettinje during the first Balkan War.


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