ings, addresses, firings of salutes, illuminations, own, covery of his property, which had been sold by the committee of sequestration, and promised to recall his son as soon as this most vexatious affair, and certain other domestic difficulties, familiarity, took their cue from their mistress, and eagerly tended a homage of which the Queen set the first example. Nor was the object of this deference less changed than the mode of his treatment. His beautiful figure was displayed to the best advantage by splendid clothes and rich decorations; he had a greater command of money, which he squandered as lavishly as it was supplied; and the quick apprehension of youth suggesting to him that there must be some secret grounds for the high distinctions he received, he was not backward in adapting himself to his supposed dignity by a more consequential carriage, and a certain air of hauteur, which was pronounced arrogance by some who thought it unwarranted by his rank and station: while the Queen Mother had been heard to remark that nature and blood would disclose themselves in spite of all the restraints of circumstance. Various and shrewd were the guesses elicited by this random observation, which confirmed those |