. Their majesties as I knew them; personal reminiscences of the kings and queens of Europe . ssassin! To my mind the mission of guarding this par-ticularly unaffected and affable King was neithera very absorbing nor a very thankless task. AtAix, where he walked about from morning to nightlike any ordinary private person, everybody knewhim. There was never the least need for me toconsult the reports of my inspectors; the saun-terers, the shopkeepers, the peasants made it theirbusiness to keep me informed. Monsieur le Roi, they would say, has justpassed this way; he went down that turning. Then
. Their majesties as I knew them; personal reminiscences of the kings and queens of Europe . ssassin! To my mind the mission of guarding this par-ticularly unaffected and affable King was neithera very absorbing nor a very thankless task. AtAix, where he walked about from morning to nightlike any ordinary private person, everybody knewhim. There was never the least need for me toconsult the reports of my inspectors; the saun-terers, the shopkeepers, the peasants made it theirbusiness to keep me informed. Monsieur le Roi, they would say, has justpassed this way; he went down that turning. Then I would see a familiar form twenty yardsahead, stick in hand, Homburg hat on one ear, theslim, brisk figure clad in a light grey suit, stroll-ing down the street, or looking into a shop-window,or stopping in the midst of a group of was Monsieur le Roi. Monsieur le Roi had even become MonsieurGeorges to the pretty laundresses whom he greetedwith a pleasant Good-morning when he passedthem at the wash-tubs on his way to the bathingestablishment. For he carefully followed the cure. KING GEORGE OF GREECE IN THE STREETS OF PARIS GEORGE I, KING OF THE HELLENES 209 of baths and douches which his trusty Guillard, prescribed for his arthritis. He leftthe hotel early every morning and walked to theBaths, taking a road that leads through one of theoldest parts of Aix. The inhabitants of that pictur-esque corner came to know him so well by sight thatthey ended by treating him as a friendly he entered the Rue du Puits-dEnfer,the street-boys would stop playing and receive himwith merry cheers, to which he replied by flinginghandfuls of coppers to them. The news of his ap-proach flew from door to door till it reached thelaundry. Forthwith, the girls stopped the rhyth-mic beat of their dolHes; the songs ceased ontheir lips; they quickly wiped the lather fromtheir hands on a corner of the skirt or apron andcame out of doors, while their fresh young voi
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