Simpson, in France with her
father, Nassau Senior, found her, decorated with the title of
Madame de Beauregard, inhabiting La Celle, near Versailles, once
the abode of Madame de Pompadour, "with the national flag flying
over it, to the great scandal of the neighbourhood."
{22} Bachaumont's criticism of Latour. Lady Dilke's "French
Painters," p. 165.
{23} Here is one of the stanzas:
"L'Autriche--dit-on--et la Russie
Se brouillent pour la Turquie.
Des aujourd'hui il n'en est plus question.
En invitant une femme charmante,
Le Turc--et je l'en complimente -
Est devenu pour nous un trait d'union."
{24} "Blackwood's Magazine," December, 1895, p. 802.
{25} I inserted this quotation before reading the "Etchingham
Letters." Sir Richard would wish me to erase it as hackneyed; but
it applies to Kinglake's talk as accurately as to Virgil's writing,
and I refuse to be defrauded of it.
{26} This delightful phrase is Lady Gregory's. One would wish,
like Lord Houghton, though suppressing his presumptuous rider, to
have been its author.
{27} Of course Kinglake was not alone in this opinion.
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