excerpt from 'Letter from Lady Sarah Lyttelton to her mother, the Countess Spencer, 20 November 1813' pp. 172 (86 words)
excerpt from 'Letter from Lady Sarah Lyttelton to her mother, the Countess Spencer, 20 November 1813' pp. 172 (86 words)
| part of | Letter from Lady Sarah Lyttelton to her mother, the Countess Spencer, 20 November 1813 |
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The palace is magnificent, beyond even what its outside led me to expect. The vast size of the rooms, their immense number, the quantity of attendants, the fine solemn pomp of the High Mass of the Greek Church, performed by priests dressed in cloth of gold, with golden censors, book bindings, and taper stands, all in a perfumed mist of incense within the chapel, while very fine voices sang chaunts, and though last, not least, the sight of the Empress herself, are really like a dream. |
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