7/22 Having enjoyed the effect which he expected to produce, he said that he should perhaps visit the Princess; that she was a good person, and pious. She wears her chemises for six weeks, and sometimes longer. The gentlemen of her train have seen her wear very dirty white stockings, which fell around her heels. The virtues of the great queens of Spain are revived in her. Oh, those soiled stockings, what real glory there is in them!" He took the letter and put it back in his book. |