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قراءة كتاب Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900
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From a photograph by Cesar, Paris.
The Earl of Derby's place at Prescot, Lancashire.
From a photograph by Franz Baum, London.
From a photograph by Walery, London.
From a photograph, copyright, by Hughes & Mullins, Ryde, England.
From a photograph by Loescher & Petsch, Berlin.
From a photograph by Walery, London.
From a photograph by Russell & Sons, London.
From a photograph by Lambert Weston & Son, Dover.
From a photograph by Barker & Pragnell, London.
The last portrait of the Empress by the artist Angeli.
From a photograph by Broderick.
LETTERS OF A DIPLOMAT'S WIFE
PART I
THE CORONATION OF THE CZAR
To G. K. S.
Our breakfast at the English Embassy was most interesting. I began by refusing on account of my mourning, but Lord Lyons wrote me a nice note saying that there would be no one but the Léon Says and Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, so I accepted. I was very anxious to see Mr. Gladstone.
We had a pretty little breakfast upstairs in the small dining-room, and the talk at table was most interesting. I thought Mrs. Gladstone looked older than her husband. He of course did most of the talking. He has a fine voice, bright, keen, dark eyes, holds himself very erect, and apparently knows everything about everything. When the men were smoking after breakfast I had quite a talk with Mrs. Gladstone, who told me about the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish. She said her husband heard it at a big London party, and had to go and tell Lady Frederick. Mr. Gladstone was more upset by the whole thing (and the having to tell the unfortunate wife) than she had ever seen him. Il y avait de quoi, for even here in Paris, where outside