tailieunhanh - Indiscretions' of Lady Susan

MY grandfather, George Keppel, sixth Earl of Albemarle, was born in 1799. I remember him quite well. He was always a delightful raconteur, and many is the yarn we heard from him at Quidenham, when in the winter evenings he gathered us round him before the old library fire. He would tell us how as a child he had been frightened into obedience by the cry of " Boney is coming!" and he recalled quite clearly the alarm produced in England by the avowed intention of Napoleon to invade our country. As a boy he often stayed in London with his maternal grandmother, the Dowager. | Indiscretions of Lady Susan 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV Indiscretions of Lady Susan Lady Susan Townley D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK Lady Susan Townley 2 MCMXXII Copyright 1922 by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Printed in the United States of America. TO STEVE THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BEING SOME MEMORIES OF TWO HAPPY LIVES IN WHICH HE PLAYED A GREAT PART CONTENTS CHAPTER I LOOKING BACK I raise the Curtain with tales of my grandfather and stories of my father and his family including myself. CHAPTER II LISBON Lisbon in the days of King Carlos People I met there and how I once diplomatically fainted to avoid trouble with a German swashbuckler. CHAPTER III BERLIN Berlin society as I knew it Recollections of the Emperor Frederick and of the ex-Kaiser before and after he came to the throne How Cecil Rhodes directed the Kaiser s ambitions towards Baghdad What the English in Berlin suffered during the Boer War and how the Kaiser wanted to show us how to win it. CHAPTER IV ROME We are transferred to Rome Lady Susan Townley 3 The tragedy of King Humbert I see the pagan relics of Rome with Professor Boni and have a private audience with the Pope. CHAPTER V PEKING The fascination of China Humours of my Chinese cooks that were not always amusing I become friendly with the famous Empress-Dowager and am admitted to the intimacy of her Palace The pitiful little Emperor The belated fantastic funeral of Li Hung Chang A lightning trip and the bet I won of Sir Claude Macdonald. CHAPTER VI AN INTERLUDE CHAPTER VII CONSTANTINOPLE Constantinople from within Abdul Hamid the little wizened old despot his subtle cruelties and cowardice in private and public life The secrets of the harem and the bitter cry of the Turkish women. CHAPTER VIII IN THE HOLY LAND A tour through the Holy Land Wonders of the Holy City A caravan journey to Damascus Pilgrims .