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SLEDGING.
Ill
ing his whip yet louder and longer, and in one of his
evolutions nearly carrying off poor Isabel’s nose. And
this was the more unkind as I discovered that this day hap-
pened to be her birthday !
November NSth.—To-day we had another holiday, thanks
to the attraction of sledging. Isabel was overjoyed when
once more Anna suddenly returned from the studio pro-
posing a fresh attempt to reach Nymphenburg. Fraulein
Sanchen was again despatched for a sledge,—the very
handsomest she could hire,—and for Anna’s new bonnet
from the milliner’s; for Anna, at length, was going to
relieve her conscience by making a call, only too long due,
at Madame de-’s.
Sledge and bonnet arrived in due time, and well had
Fraulein Sanchen executed her commission: she clapped
her poor old bony hands with satisfaction and joy, the
good old Fraulein ! as she ran into ora sitting-room all
crimson-nosed from the frosty air, and bidding us to look
out of the window at the magnificent sledge which she
had brought. It was a magnificent sledge which we
had greatly admired on the Odeon Platz,—large and white,
lined with scarlet cloth, and covered in with a leopard skin,
—two tall golden ornaments in the front, crowned each
with a golden bunch of grapes,—but the supreme grandeur
of the whole were plumes of white and blue feathers, which
nodded upon the horses’ heads ! The driver and his horses
were in keeping with the sledge—was it not magnificent
indeed ? A fit equipage to convey ladies to an ambassador’s
house!
But ah ! the Russian lady, the Frau Oberstin, who lives at
the end of our street, and who, unluckily for the hard-work-
ing English girls, has taken a great fancy to them,—she and
Ill
ing his whip yet louder and longer, and in one of his
evolutions nearly carrying off poor Isabel’s nose. And
this was the more unkind as I discovered that this day hap-
pened to be her birthday !
November NSth.—To-day we had another holiday, thanks
to the attraction of sledging. Isabel was overjoyed when
once more Anna suddenly returned from the studio pro-
posing a fresh attempt to reach Nymphenburg. Fraulein
Sanchen was again despatched for a sledge,—the very
handsomest she could hire,—and for Anna’s new bonnet
from the milliner’s; for Anna, at length, was going to
relieve her conscience by making a call, only too long due,
at Madame de-’s.
Sledge and bonnet arrived in due time, and well had
Fraulein Sanchen executed her commission: she clapped
her poor old bony hands with satisfaction and joy, the
good old Fraulein ! as she ran into ora sitting-room all
crimson-nosed from the frosty air, and bidding us to look
out of the window at the magnificent sledge which she
had brought. It was a magnificent sledge which we
had greatly admired on the Odeon Platz,—large and white,
lined with scarlet cloth, and covered in with a leopard skin,
—two tall golden ornaments in the front, crowned each
with a golden bunch of grapes,—but the supreme grandeur
of the whole were plumes of white and blue feathers, which
nodded upon the horses’ heads ! The driver and his horses
were in keeping with the sledge—was it not magnificent
indeed ? A fit equipage to convey ladies to an ambassador’s
house!
But ah ! the Russian lady, the Frau Oberstin, who lives at
the end of our street, and who, unluckily for the hard-work-
ing English girls, has taken a great fancy to them,—she and