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104 for she had as yet had no time either to observe or follow the fashion of the French. She wore neither the rouge, the powder, nor the frizzed hair, so universal at this period; but her rich dark tresses were bound with classical simplicity round a head small like that of a greyhound; and she wore a black silk dress close up to the throat, with loose sleeves, like the garb of the novices of the convent where she had been partly educated.

Her manner was at first constrained, but it gradually became kind, as if she reproached herself for her involuntary coldness; while Evelyn expressed his regret at his being obliged so soon to leave her, and enlarged upon the necessity of stating to Charles the turn in affairs.

"My father blames the part I have taken in the Stuart cause; and perhaps I had studied our interest more"—and here a gentle stress was laid on the words—"had I disguised my feelings. But, methinks, every spark of generosity and spirit must arouse for the exiled and the unfortunate. I loathe the canting Roundheads, from their straight hair to their long sermons; and pant for the hour when, instead of the low-bred hypocrite who now holds sway in England, the throne will be filled by our young, free, and gallant prince."