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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

CHAPTER III
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She is the favourite Queen at present, and has only been married a month or two, her age, about fourteen; and such a little creature, with the smallest hands and feet, and the most timid, modest look imaginable.

You would have been charmed with her, she was so graceful and fawn-like.

Her dress was of gold and scarlet brocade, and her hair was literally strewed with pearls, which hung down upon her neck in long single strings, terminating in large pearls, which mixed with and hung as low as her hair, which was curled on each side her head in long ringlets, like Charles the Second's beauties.

On her forehead she wore a small gold circlet, from which depended and hung, half way down, large pearls interspersed with emeralds.

Above this was a paradise plume, from which strings of pearls were carried over the head, as we turn our hair.


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