The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . e, is the use of an old sedan-chair, mounted onwheels, drawn by a chairman, and called the Push, whichis used by the ladies for going out in the evening to dinnersor parties, from one part of the building to another. Thiscurious survival of a bygone age, of which we here insert asketch, is probably the only sedan-chair in actual use inEngland. As for the mysteries of modern society within the Palace,we shall not attempt to penetrate them ; for it is a subject,which would require the pen of a Miss Austen or a George History of Hampton Court P
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . e, is the use of an old sedan-chair, mounted onwheels, drawn by a chairman, and called the Push, whichis used by the ladies for going out in the evening to dinnersor parties, from one part of the building to another. Thiscurious survival of a bygone age, of which we here insert asketch, is probably the only sedan-chair in actual use inEngland. As for the mysteries of modern society within the Palace,we shall not attempt to penetrate them ; for it is a subject,which would require the pen of a Miss Austen or a George History of Hampton Court Palace. [1890 Eliot adequately to portray. Besides, the palmy days ofPalace society were, probably, in the earlier part of thecentury; when the inhabitants belonged rather more to thesame social set than they do now; when half of themwere, more or less, nearly related to each other—each ofthe families of FitzRoy, Wellesley, Seymour, and Paget,holding three or four suites of apartments—and when theymostly had the same acquaintances and friends. I. The Push. Even now, however, the inhabitants, living, as theydo, all under the same roof, constantly seeing and meet-ing each other, and having so many interests in common,it is not surprising that bonds of the most intimatefriendship are formed between many of them ; whichbonds have been the closer, when those, whom they link,have grown up together from childhood in the Palace,and have passed their youth together, engaging in thesame pursuits, and sharing the same amusements; and 1890] Friendships formed at Hampton Court. 417 they have usually endured, long after the connection withHampton Court has ceased ; while in many cases they havebeen cemented by that closest tie of all—marriage. Thereis, in truth, something so essentially home-like in the oldPalace, that very few can dwell within it long, withoutgrowing attached to it; and most of those, who have leftit, though their lot may be cast on long-distant shores, yetlook back, w
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