...exceedingly minute and severe. The princesses were brought up in strict seclusion. " Their foot," a* the song says, " might never touch the ground ;" and...allowed to cross on foot the beautiful bridge over the F/lbe, on which she had looked daily from her palace window for twenty years of her life. Had the old...

...I have heard that one of them, when these punctilious disabilities were removed, made it her tirst request to be allowed to cross on foot the beautiful...from her palace window for twenty years of her life. Una the old order of things gone on in the old orderly way, 1 cannot conceive the possibility of it...

...said of her, or of one of her sisters, that her first request when she had outgrown her childhood, was to be allowed to cross on foot the beautiful bridge over the Elbe, on which she had looked daily for all the years of her young life. The reaction of the French Revolution first came with a crash...

...removal of these oppressive formalities, " one of the young princesses requested, as an especial favour, to be allowed to cross on foot the beautiful bridge...Elbe, on which she had looked daily from her palace windows, for twenty years of her life." Before the princess had attained her twelfth year, the troubles...