WIVES OF THE PRIME MINISTERS
Ambassador harassed afresh with the increasing troubles in Austria which so afflicted his wife as to make it impossible for her to be present. The party was relieved by Lord Aberdeen, Lord and Lady Mahon. I had some talk with Madame Jarnac. Her account of the poor Queen of France especially was touching, of the dangers and trials connected with their flight, of the sad deprivations to which they were subject, the terror of the poor Queen about her husband and then her children. Sir Robert Peel joined in our conversation; he views the state of Europe with much alarm. He had received private information respecting the Prince of Prussia (now at Bunsen's), who is said to have broken his sword, and laid it with his spurs at the feet of the King of Prussia. Lady Peel looks so wonderfully young and pretty. I returned home excited with the evening we had passed with that remarkable party."
Next year (1849) dining again at Sir Robert Peel's, Peel talked to her after dinner. "I confess I had never known him so well before, for now his conversation turned on subjects which specially brought out feeling, his children and their education. Lady Lincoln, Mr. Goulburn's trials and excellences. Speaking of his
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