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HERVEY'S MEMOIRS 221
stuffing; the Princess Emily for not hearing him; the
Princess Caroline for being grown fat; the Duke [of
Cumberland] for standing awkwardly ; Lord Hervey
for not knowing what relation the Prince of Sultzbach
was to the Elector Palatine; and then carried the
Queen to walk and be re-snubbed in the garden."
And all the while, as so often — Lord Hervey tells it
of another occasion when George was explaining the
singularlv inappropriate pictures which he had brought
over from Hanover to hang in the Queen's drawingroom
— the only friend the Queen could rely upon,
"whilst he was peeping over his Majesty's shoulder
at these pictures, was shrugging up his own, and now
and then stealing a look to make faces at the Queen,
who, a little angry, a little peevish, and a little tired
with her husband's absurdity, and a little entertained
with his lordship's grimaces, used to sit and knot in
a corner of the room, sometimes yawning and sometimes
smiling, and equally afraid of betraying those
signs either of her lassitude or ofher mirth." 1
As time went on, and after a new entanglement in
Hanover, George from uncivil became absolutely
brutal, " abominably and perpetually so harsh and
rough, that she could never speak one word uncontradicted,
nor do any act unreproved; and though
the Queen, whilst she knew the King's heart was as
warm to her as his temper, could, for the sake of
the agreeable advantages she reaped from the one,
support and forgive the irksome inconveniences she
1 Memoirs, vol. ii. p.84.