CHAPTER IV 



POSITION 



Where, is now our question, shall the Rosary be? 

 In what part of our garden shall we find the best 

 situation, the most worthy site for a royal throne? 

 Some, indeed, have treated our Queen more as a 

 menial than as a monarch ; they have sent Her 

 Majesty by lobbies and back-stairs into dismal 

 chambers which look down on bottle-racks, and to 

 attics where, through clattering casement, the wintry 

 winds blow chill. And this when they should have 

 uncovered their drawing-room damask and thoroughly 

 aired their best bed. 



Some, having heard that a free circulation of air 

 and abundance of sunshine are essential elements 

 of success, select a spot which would be excellent 

 for a windmill, observatory, beacon, or Martello 

 tower ; and there the poor Rose-trees stand, or, 

 more accurately speaking, wobble, with their leaves, 

 like King Lear's silver locks, rudely blown and 

 drenched by the *to-and-fro contending wind and 



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