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le Cee) considered the best. Though lately it has been sadly disfigured, it shows us a round and comely face, with strong and regular features. Her chestnut hair was long and luxuriant, and her manner graceful, dignified, and pleasant, though a defect in her eyesight produced at times a frown which made her look cross. Like Queen Elizabeth, she could boast of small and beautifully shaped hands. As Queen Anne advanced in age she became excessively stout, and was smitten with gout and dropsy. Her corpulence and her ailments partly resulted from, and certainly were increased by, the recklessness of her diet. The example set by Prince George may have been catching, at any rate she indulged in three heavy meals a-day, and regularly washed down her supper with a cup of rich chocolate. Intellectually, Queen Anne was below the average of her subjects. Weak, childish, peevish, and obsti- nate, she was yet pure-minded, generous, simple, and affectionate, and showed a touching piety under her bereavements. ‘Our Good Queen Anne’ is an appellation still common with the masses. ‘Entirely Enelish at heart,’ were the words y g ) and their genuineness was proved by her general | she used in her first speech from the throne ; conduct, by her domestic virtues, by her attach- | ment to the religion of her country, and even