I learned with much chagrin that the King was ill of tertian ague [quartan; but that is no matter].

He sent me word that, being in his fit, he could not see me; but that he depended on having that pleasure to-morrow.

The Queen Mother, to whom I went without delay, was in a dark condition; rooms all hung with their lugubrious drapery; everything yet in the depth of mourning for my Father.

What a scene for me! Nature has her rights; I can say with truth, I have almost never in my life been so moved as on this occasion." Interview with Mamma--we can fancy it--"was of the most touching." Wilhelmina had been absent eight years.

She scarcely knows the young ones again, all so grown;--finds change on change: and that Time, as he always is, has been busy.