The chamber is so vast and lonely that she has a bed made for Betsy
in the room. It is, of course, whisked away into a closet on
reception-evenings. A boudoir, rose-tendre, with more cupids and nymphs
by Boucher, sporting over door-panels--nymphs who may well shock old
Betsy and her old mistress--is the Pricess's morning-room. "Ah, mum, what
would Mr. Humper at Manchester, Mr. Jowls of Newcome" (the minister whom,
in early days, Miss Higg used to sit under) "say if they was browt into
this room?" But there is no question of Jowls and Mr. Humper, excellent
dissenting divines, who preached to Miss Higg, being brought into the
Princesse de Moncontour's boudoir.
That paragraph, respecting a conversion in high life, which F. B. in his
enthusiasm inserted in the Pall Mall Gazette, caused no small excitement
in the Florac family. The Florac family read the Pall Mall Gazette,
knowing that Clive's friends were engaged in that periodical. When Madame
de Florac, who did not often read newspapers, happened to cast her eye
upon that poetic paragraph of F.
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