THE

PRINCESS;

OR

THE BEGUIN E.

BY LADY MORGAN,

AUTHOR OF "O'DONNEL," &c.

"She was one of those kind of nuns, an' please your honour, of which your
honour knows there are a good many in Flanders, which they let go loose."-" By
thy description, Trim," said my Uncle Toby, "I dare say she was a young
Beguine."

TRISTRAM SHANDY.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

(SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN.)

1835.

Dir Quaritch 7-27-50 71298 3V.

THE PRINCESS.

CHAPTER I.

THE OPERA.

Croiriez-vous que je reviens de l'opéra! La fête se faisoit pour l'Abbé Arnauld, qui n'en a pas vu, depuis Urbain VIII., qu'il étoit à Rome. Il en a été fort content; je suis chargé des complimens de toute sa loge.

Lettres de Madame de Sévigné, vol. iii. p. 10.

A PARTY at the opera arranged for the special entertainment of the bishop of Angers, one of the most pious prelates of the Gallican church, and in the reign, too, of one of the most pious of the French kings! A strange trait of manners this, and yet one only in a myriad, proving that hostility to theatrical exhibitions formed no principle of the church's original system.

By the introduction of mysteries,' the clergy

VOL. I.

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