. Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay) and her friends : select passages from her diary and other writings. g seen bythem. Consequently, I should have stood in the herd,and unregarded ; but Lady Louisas kindness and goodbreeding put me in a place too conspicuous to pass un-noticed. The moment the Queen had spoken to her,which she stopped to do as soon as she came up to her,she inquired, in a whisper, who was with her. TheQueen then instantly stepped near me, and asked mehow I did ; and then the King came forward, and, assoon as he had repeated the same question, said: Are you come to stay ? No, sir
. Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay) and her friends : select passages from her diary and other writings. g seen bythem. Consequently, I should have stood in the herd,and unregarded ; but Lady Louisas kindness and goodbreeding put me in a place too conspicuous to pass un-noticed. The moment the Queen had spoken to her,which she stopped to do as soon as she came up to her,she inquired, in a whisper, who was with her. TheQueen then instantly stepped near me, and asked mehow I did ; and then the King came forward, and, assoon as he had repeated the same question, said: Are you come to stay ? No, sir ; not now. * I was sure, cried the Oueen, she was not cometo stay, by seeing her father ! I was glad by this to know my father had beenobserved. And when, asked the King, do you return againto Windsor ? * Charlotte, b. 1766, d. 1828,111. Kinj^ of Wmteniberg ; Augusta, b. 1768,<1. 1840 (unin.) ; Elizabeth, b. 1770, 1X40,111. Landgrave of lltsse lloiiiburg ;Mary, b. 1776, d. 1840,111. her cousin, the Duke uf Gloucester; Sophia, b. 1777,<1. 1848 (unni.) ; .Vinelia, b. 1783, d. 1810 (unm.).. a f) to 4j tj ^^^ ^ ■S C Jo 5^ -^ ^ -U - (^ •Vj ^-S ^ ^ Dr, Burneys Disappointment. 151 Very soon, I hope, sir. And—and—and, cried he, half laughing and hesi-tating significantly, pray, how goes on the Muse ? At first I only laughed too; but he repeated the in-quiry, and then I answered : Not at all, sir/ No ? But why ?—why not ? I—I—I am afraid, sir, stammered I. And why ? repeated he ;— of what ? I spoke something—I hardly know what myself—soindistinctly that he could not hear me, though he hadput his head quite under my hat from the beginning ofthe little conference ; and after another such question ortwo, and no greater satisfaction in the answer, he smiledvery good-humouredly, and walked on, his Queen by hisside. ^^e stayed some time longer on the Terrace, and mypoor father occasionally joined me; but he looked soconscious and depressed that it pained me to se
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