Excerpt from Joseph II: And His Court; An Historical Novel From her cabinet council the empress passed at once to her pri vate apartments. When business was over for the day, she loved to cast the cares of sovereignty behind, and become a woman - chatting with her ladies of honor over the on dits of the court and city. During the hours devoted to her toilet, Maria Theresa gave herself up unreservedly to enjoyment. But she was so impetuous, that her ladies of honor were never quite secure that some little annoyance would ...
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Excerpt from Joseph II: And His Court; An Historical Novel From her cabinet council the empress passed at once to her pri vate apartments. When business was over for the day, she loved to cast the cares of sovereignty behind, and become a woman - chatting with her ladies of honor over the on dits of the court and city. During the hours devoted to her toilet, Maria Theresa gave herself up unreservedly to enjoyment. But she was so impetuous, that her ladies of honor were never quite secure that some little annoyance would not ruffle the serenity of her temper. The young girl whose duty it was to read aloud to the empress and dress her hair, used to declare that she would sooner wade through three hours' worth of Latin dispatches from Hungary, than spend one half hour as im perial hair-dresser. But to-day, as she entered her dressing-room, the eyes of the empress beamed with pleasure, and her mouth was wreathed with sunny smiles. The little hair-dresser was delighted, and with a responsive smile took her place, and prepared for her important duties. Maria Theresa glided into the chair, and with her Own hands began to unfasten the golden net that confined her hair. She then leaned forward, and, with a pleased expression, contemplated the beautiful face that looked out from the silver-framed Venetian glass before which she sat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Fair. 4 volumes bound in 1. First 3 volumes with 7 (of 8) of the original wall paper wrappers. Titles chipped and soiled. Several margin tears. Some damp staining to first volume. Rare Confederate and Alabama imprint. Crandall II, 3106. Parrish 6437. Housed in modern beige cloth clam shell box. "Tinted covers printed on wall paper. Printing paper had become so scarce in the South that publishers were obliged to use wall paper." Scott and O'Shaughnessy, p. 36. "Probably the most extensive purely literary venture undertaken in the Confederate States, " Anderson Galleries, 1904.