Lives of the last four princesses of the royal house of Stuart

270 THE PETNCESS HENRIETTA ANNE. [1669.
(stature) is ratlier tall than otherwise. Her shape is
delicate, her motions graceful. Her eyes are sparkling
and yet compassionate, and do not only penetrate the
thoughts of others, but often also express her own ; teaching,
as it were, a language yet unknown to any but the blest
above. Her lips do always blush, for kissing the finest
teeth that ever yet were seen ; and her complexion is un-
paralleled. Her bosom moving little worlds of pleasure,
and so sweet an innocency shines in her composition, that
one would think she had never heard the name of sin.
Yet the freedom (ease) of her carriage, and the pleasant-
ness of her discourse, would charm an anchorite ; and yet
there is something of majesty, so mixed with the rest, that
it stifles the birth of any unruly thought, and creates love
mingled with fear, like that inspired by deity. Her wit
is most extolled by all that hear her, for she has not only
a peculiar talent in finding apt similitudes, and in the
quickness of her repartees, but in the plainest subjects of
discourse she finds something new, which pleases all her
auditors. But now as to her mind (temper). Though
always generous, it is so changeable, and seems incapable
of any lasting friendship, for she is never long satisfied
with herself, or with those who endeavour to please
her."*
Henrietta, was often importuned to use her influence with
her royal brother-in-law, Louis XIV., for persons in disgrace,
and banished from the court of France, that they might have
permission to return to that " fool's paradise." The gover-
ness of her daughter, Madame St. Chaumont, sister to the
Chevalier de Gramont, the reputed author of the famous
' Memoires de Gramont,' made daily intercession to her
Princess, to obtain the recall of the Chevalier to the
* ' Memoirs and Letters of Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chester-
field,' p. 158.