Tom Thumb's Bridal Tour: A Fairy StoryWynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas, 1863 - 30 pages |
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Page 23 - ... silk decorated with a golden poodle. She was 'above all things happy', he said, 'in meeting once again Napoleon III, who made a conquest of her in the month of April when he was in London'. Canrobert met the Queen in the salon before dinner. She came up to him in the friendliest way: 'I am delighted to see you; I have heard so much about you that I must already look upon you as an old acquaintance'.