CHAPTER IX.

Grand entry of King and Queen into Holland: opening of the meeting of their High Mightinesses: anecdote of royal economy: the Hague described: Lady W. Montagu’s remarks rebutted: pretty female faces: a Dutch nursery: Dutch mode of increasing animal heat: the wood: its sanctity: the palace formerly called the House in the Wood: anecdote of King William the Third: unostentatious habits of the Orange family: charming jaunt to Scheveling: a marine hotel: Mr. Fox 92