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'Indiscretions' of Lady Susan
[Lady Susan Townley]
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK
MCMXXII
Copyright, 1922, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America.
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TO STEVE
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED,
BEING SOME MEMORIES OF TWO HAPPY LIVES IN WHICH HE PLAYED A GREAT PART
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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
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, fantasti