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Queen Victoria

CHAPTER VII
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"I didn't think she was so fond of them as THAT." Though the violence of her perturbations gradually subsided, her cheerfulness did not return.

For months, for years, she continued in settled gloom.

Her life became one of almost complete seclusion.

Arrayed in thickest crepe, she passed dolefully from Windsor to Osborne, from Osborne to Balmoral.

Rarely visiting the capital, refusing to take any part in the ceremonies of state, shutting herself off from the slightest intercourse with society, she became almost as unknown to her subjects as some potentate of the East.


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