Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . ue to an anointed of the Lord, if not in esse, at any rate infuhuo, I prefer to continue to consider him in the light of awarm-hearted friend, as an honorable and kindly gentlemanin every sense of the word, and as a man whom, either asPrince or peasant, any one would be proud and happy to pos-sess as a friend. With traits of character such as these, it is only natural thathe should be exceedingly popular with all classes. Indeed itis open to question whether the English
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . ue to an anointed of the Lord, if not in esse, at any rate infuhuo, I prefer to continue to consider him in the light of awarm-hearted friend, as an honorable and kindly gentlemanin every sense of the word, and as a man whom, either asPrince or peasant, any one would be proud and happy to pos-sess as a friend. With traits of character such as these, it is only natural thathe should be exceedingly popular with all classes. Indeed itis open to question whether the English people do not preferthe presence to the absence of his faults. For the latter arethose of a generous, pleasure-loving nature, and withoutthese petits vices, as the French call them, he would run therisk of being regarded with the same disfavor as his father,the Prince Consort, whose blameless life and faultless char-acter led to his being considered by the English people atlarge as something of a prig. On the whole, they are right to view the faults of the RoyalWelshman with indulgence. For, aside from the natural dis-. Princess Victoria of Wales. 122 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. inclination to provoke outbursts of ill-temper on the part ofso good-humored and jovial-hearted a Prince, there is a uni-versal disposition to abstain from all individual criticism orcensure of his conduct. He lives in an atmosphere of suchloyalty that it may almost be described as sycophancy, andalthough he may be made the object of collective and indirectcriticism from those who do not come into actual contact withhim, yet there is no one who ventures personally to point outto him the right and wrong of his ways. If he has remainedan honorable and true-hearted gentleman, and if his recordis free from all but mere venial sins, it is due to his own soundcommon-sense, his innate honesty of purpose, and his in-grained horror of everything that is mean and vulgar. Andwith reeard to this distinction between coll
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