The things we do!

Had not
Cincinnatus himself pigs on his farm, and was he not a general and member
of Congress too? The honest Princess has a bedchamber, which, to her
terror, she is obliged to open of reception-evenings, when gentlemen and
ladies play cards there. It is fitted up in the style of Louis XVI. In
her bed is an immense looking-glass, surmounted by stucco cupids: it is
an alcove which some powdered Venus, before the Revolution, might have
reposed in. Opposite that looking-glass, between the tall windows, at
some forty feet distance, is another huge mirror, so that when the poor
Princess is in bed, in her prim old curl-papers, she sees a vista of
elderly princesses twinkling away into the dark perspective; and is so
frightened that she and Betsy, her Lancashire maid, pin up the jonquil
silk curtains over the bed-mirror after the first night; though the
Princess never can get it out of her head that her image is still there,
behind the jonquil hangings, turning as she turns, waking as she wakes,
etc.


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