. A little queen of hearts; an international story . at theRoyal Mews, and, raregood fortune, the best wasyet to come. They meansMr. Harris and Marie-Celeste and Albert, andthe Royal Mews—sinceto the average littleAmerican the wordsdoubtless are wholly un-intelligible--means theroyal stables. Mr. Har-ris and Marie-Celestehad called by appointmentin the phaeton for Albert,and then leaving theponies in the care of agroom at the entrance tothe stable courtyard, in company with another groom they had visitedthe royal horses. The place as a whole was rather disappointing to ourlittle party. Harold,
. A little queen of hearts; an international story . at theRoyal Mews, and, raregood fortune, the best wasyet to come. They meansMr. Harris and Marie-Celeste and Albert, andthe Royal Mews—sinceto the average littleAmerican the wordsdoubtless are wholly un-intelligible--means theroyal stables. Mr. Har-ris and Marie-Celestehad called by appointmentin the phaeton for Albert,and then leaving theponies in the care of agroom at the entrance tothe stable courtyard, in company with another groom they had visitedthe royal horses. The place as a whole was rather disappointing to ourlittle party. Harold, who had been all through the stables of the Dukeof Westminster at Eton Hall, had described something much finerthan this—imposing buildings surrounding a courtyard paved withbevel-edged squares of stone, with not so much as a whisp of hay orstraw to be seen anywhere, and in the centre a noble statue of a high-spirited horse, rearing and pulling hard at the bridle, held in the handof a stalwart groom, who seems fully equaf to the occasion. Here. 126 A LITTLE QUEEN OF HEARTS. there was nothing of the sort, and yet these were the Queens , well ! these were old and the Dukes were new, and perhaps theroyal family were trying to avoid extravagance, and that was ofcourse very commendable. But what seemed lacking in elegance ofappointment was made up in the number of horses ; and happeningto enter one of the courtyards just as three of the court carriageswere about to be driven out of it, the children were intensely inter-ested. Marie-Celeste opened her eyes wide for wonder at the novelsight of a coach and four, but with no reins anywhere about the har-ness, and not so much as the suggestion of a seat for the mystery of how they were to be driven was solved in a moment,however, when a faultlessly equipped groom threw himself astride ofone of the leaders, and the stablemen, standing at the bridles of thefour-in-hand, at one and the same moment let go their ho
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