, Josiana had dreams.

The Duchess Josiana had a peculiarity, less rare than it is supposed.
One of her eyes was blue and the other black. Her pupils were made for
love and hate, for happiness and misery. Night and day were mingled in
her look.

Her ambition was this--to show herself capable of impossibilities. One
day she said to Swift, "You people fancy that you know what scorn is."
"You people" meant the human race.

She was a skin-deep Papist. Her Catholicism did not exceed the amount
necessary for fashion. She would have been a Puseyite in the present
day. She wore great dresses of velvet, satin, or moire, some composed of
fifteen or sixteen yards of material, with embroideries of gold and
silver; and round her waist many knots of pearls, alternating with other
precious stones. She was extravagant in gold lace. Sometimes she wore an
embroidered cloth jacket like a bachelor. She rode on a man's saddle,
notwithstanding the invention of side-saddles, introduced into England
in the fourteenth century by Anne, wife of Richard II. She washed her
face, arms, shoulders, and neck, in sugar-candy, diluted in white of
egg, after the fashion of Castile. There came over her face, after any
one had spoken wittily in her presence, a reflective smile of singular
grace. She was free from malice, and rather good-natured than otherwise.

CHAPTER IV.

THE LEADER OF FASHION.

Josiana was bored. The fact is so natural as to be scarcely worth
mentioning.

Lord David held the position of judge in the gay life of London. He was
looked up to by the nobility and gentry. Let us register a glory of Lord
David's. He was daring enough to wear his own hair. The reaction against
the wig was beginning. Just as in 1824 Eugene Deveria was the first to
allow his beard to grow, so in 1702 Prince Devereux was the first to
risk wearing his own hair in public disguised by artful curling. For to
risk one's hair was almost to risk one's head. The indignation was
universal. Nevertheless Prince Devereux was Viscount Hereford, and a
peer of England. He was insulted, and the deed was well worth the
insult. In the hottest part of the row Lord David suddenly appeared
without his wig and in his own hair. Such conduct shakes the foundations
of society. Lord David was insulted even more than Viscount Hereford. He
held his ground. Prince Devereux was the first, Lord David Dirry-Moir
the second. It is sometimes more difficult to be second than first. I