She is rather below the middle height, very young-
looking for her age, which is thirty-seven, and very graceful in her
movements. Her manner is indeed very fascinating from a combination
of unconscious dignity with ladylike simplicity. Her expression is
sweet and gentle, with the same look of sadness about her eyes that
the king has, but she has a brightness and archness of expression
which give a great charm to her appearance. She has sorrowed much:
first, for the death, at the age of four, of her only child, the
Prince of Hawaii, who when dying was baptized into the English
Church by the name of Albert Edward, Queen Victoria and the Prince
of Wales being his sponsors; and secondly, for the premature death
of her husband, to whom she was much attached. She speaks English
beautifully, only hesitating now and then for the most correct form
of expression. She spoke a good deal and with great pleasure of
England; and described Venice and the emotions it excited in her so
admirably, that I should like to have heard her describe all Europe.
A few days afterwards I went to a garden party at her house. It was
a very pretty sight, and the "everybody" of Honolulu was there to
the number of 250.
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