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Title: V. R. I. : Queen Victoria, her life and empire
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of, 1845-1914
Subjects: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and, putting the key into her pocket, retorted, There,now! you see there is no must about it at all. The Princess was so extremely fond of music that theDuchess of Kent, in order to give her pleasure, sent foran infant prodigy of the time—a child about five yearsold, called Lyra—whose performances on the harp hadbecome somewhat famous. While this young musicianwas playing, the Duchess, seeing the Princess absorbedin the music, left the room for a few minutes. On her re-turn she found the harp deserted. The lonely little heiressof England, who so rarely pla5^ed with a child of her ownage, had beguiled the youthful musician from her instru-ment by the display of some of her toj^^s, and the two childrenwere seated side by side on the hearth-rug in a state of highenjoyment, surrounded by the Princesss playthings,from which she was making a selection for the littleLyra. One day Queen Victoria was paying a visit to QueenAdelaide, and was asked to choose what would be the 24 (..ya^gKi^ w
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PRINCESS VICTORIA AND THE CHILD MUSICIAN(From a drawing by Alec Ball) EARLY DAYS greatest treat she could desire for her days enjoyment.To the astonishment of the good Queen she eagerly beggedto be allowed to clean the windows as the very acme ofenjoyment! The Dowager Queens residence, as a widow, was atthat time Marlborough House, and the dining-room was thesame as that now used, but two corkscrew stairs wereawkwardly situated within the room, and led up to thefirst floor. Whitewash or plaster concealed the fine paint-ings of Marlboroughs battles in the hall and on the stair-way walls, and it was not until the house was preparedfor the Prince of Wales in 1850, that the concealment dis-appeared, and the paintings were cleaned and admired. On another occasion, seeing a crowd collected roundthe door of a house to which her mother had taken her topay a visit, the child, accompanied bj some indiscreetattendant, stole out by a side door and mixed with thecrowd, listening to the remarks on

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