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One of them hired a Hat near bis lodging, and a piano. His Majesty lost his temper, and sent message after message to the landlord to beg that he would silence her pianofoi te.
This the landlord feared to do. The affair was arranged by a Greek, who told the lady his Majesty was a born hater of music, which he thought. The beauty changed her tactics accordingly. His Majesty was no longer bored by the piano. Ia the evening she is at her best, and more especially at the piano, where her skill as a musician makes her remarkable.
Her talent has, been cultivated in Paris with the best masters. Mus William Astor and Miss Nellie Farren, the former of Newport and the latter of the Gaiety Theatre, London, are among the richest possessors of gems of whom there is any record. They are set to curve outward all around the crown or laid more nearly flat on the brim, or they cover the crown entirely, which is then surmounted by the "three branching lyre-shaped feathers of the Prince of Wales' crest, or else a cluster of small crest feathers is set far forward on the brim, and a larger crest is high at the back of the crown.
It almost looked as if her visiting list had been used for this systematic diffusion of slanders. It is probable that this was but the effect of some temporary worry or indisposition, but on the other hand it must be borne in mind that all those people who for years and years apparently defy the ravages of time, suddenly change all at once, and in one month come to look their real years.
