Note 79 — Chapter III

The following remarkable anecdote was told me by Mr. Fox, who said the King himself told it him, and that the late Lord Hervey had told him the same particular from the Queen. One day, when the Prince was but a boy, his Governor was complaining of him: the Queen, whose way (as the King said) was to excuse him, said, “Ah! je m’imagine que ces sont des tours de page.” The Governor replied, “Plût à Dieu, madame, que ces fûssent des tours de page! ces sont des tours de laquais et de coquins.”