. Court life from within . ou have brought me out to see?I said teasingly. 148. Courtesy of Colliers German Emperor ix Austriax Uniform THE KAISER AND HIS COURT Yes, all, he said, and we both laughed. The Kaiser knows that I am passionately fondof dancing, and he used to make a point of arrang-ing small dances when I was at the castle, so thatI could enjoy myself without the restraint imposedon Royal personages at the formal Court used to call these small dances: Les Bals deVlnfanta. At Court balls we walked round the circleof guests—at all Courts people seem eternally stand-ing in
. Court life from within . ou have brought me out to see?I said teasingly. 148. Courtesy of Colliers German Emperor ix Austriax Uniform THE KAISER AND HIS COURT Yes, all, he said, and we both laughed. The Kaiser knows that I am passionately fondof dancing, and he used to make a point of arrang-ing small dances when I was at the castle, so thatI could enjoy myself without the restraint imposedon Royal personages at the formal Court used to call these small dances: Les Bals deVlnfanta. At Court balls we walked round the circleof guests—at all Courts people seem eternally stand-ing in smiling circles—and the foreign ladies, pennedbehind their ambassadors, used to afford me consider-able amusement, especially the Americans, who usedto appear in larger numbers than they have done re-cently. There they stood in the glory of expensivecourt trains, which could be no possible use to themafterwards, and curtsied to the ground when the am-bassadors had recited their names to each of us. Ioften wondered why they came and what pleasurethey could possibly derive
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