not the daughter of our old comrade, who fell at my side in the
unfortunate affair at Worcester?'

"The king took on an early opportunity of making my admiration known
to Her Majesty; and of requesting her permission for my introduction
to Miss Marchmont; who, although born of a family distinguished only
by its loyalty to the house of Stuart, having been recommended to
the royal attention from the loss of her only surviving parent in its
cause, had sufficiently won the good will of the monarch, by her
beauty and elegant accomplishments, to obtain a distinguished post
about the person of the new Queen.

"From this period, admitted as I was into the domestic circle of the
Royal household, I had frequent opportunities afforded me of
improving my acquaintance with Theresa; whose gentle and interesting
manners more than completed the conquest which her beauty had begun.
Helen, I had visited many foreign courts, and had been familiarized
with the reigning beauties of our own, at that time eminently
distinguished by the brilliancy of female beauty, but never in any
station of life did I behold a being so lovely in the expressive
sadness of her fine countenance, so graceful in every movement of her
person. But this was not all. Theresa possessed beyond other women
that retiring modesty of demeanour, that unsullied purity of look
and speech, which made her sufficiently remarkable in the midst of
a licentious court, and among companions whose levity at least
equalled their loveliness. On making more particular inquiries
respecting her family connexions, I found that they were strictly
respectable, but of the middle class of life; and that she had
passed the period intervening between the death of her father,
General Marchmont, and her appointment at court, in the family of an