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PGCJ.772.031
18 Jul 1772:13, 21 (445)
Letter from an English gentleman at the Danish court, an
attentive observer of what has been passing there ever since
the marriage of the present King, Feb. 8.
The Dowager did not fail, when the proper opportunity
offered, to interpret this innocent familiarity into the
most scandalous and infamous correspondence, and to whisper.
. . for, though the atrociousness of the crime caused the
calumny to be received with abhorrence, when first it was
insinuated, yet the balls and masquerades that had been
promoted and countenanced, and the consequences that had
been predicted to follow, happening just as the Dowager
foretold, the gravest matrons about the court, who are ever
most readily disposed to credit the worst, did not hesitate
to pronounce, that there was but too much room for
suspicion, since balls and masquerades, and other licentious
entertainments, were the Queen's favourite amusements.
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