This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...and to all Europe that peace and serenity which no one but you could procure for them. I shall inviolably preserve in my heart that gratitude for all your favours, that zeal for your service, and that true, unaffected love for your person, which I have never knowingly departed from."1 He subscribes himself as " your ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...and to all Europe that peace and serenity which no one but you could procure for them. I shall inviolably preserve in my heart that gratitude for all your favours, that zeal for your service, and that true, unaffected love for your person, which I have never knowingly departed from."1 He subscribes himself as " your Grace's obedient, faithful, and most humble servant," and, not content with this, adds the assurance of his "greatest respect." Yet, next to Harley, Bolingbroke was the chief cause of the Duke's undoing two or three years later. Well might the Duchess write the following bitter comment in her old age on the back of the original letter, which is preserved at Blenheim: "I need not say anything of Mr. St. John's behaviour, when he got into power, to the Duke of Marlborough, but that the Duke never was so kind to any man as to him, and I have heard my Lord Godolphin (say) that he had never anything to reproach himself of in the whole time that he served the Queen but in complying with the Duke of Marlborough in doing unreasonable things in paying of money for St. John at the Duke's request."2 1 Blenheim Papers. 2 Ibid. i7o8 INDISCRETION OF THE DUCHESS 259 Parliament was so elated by the recent military events that the House of Commons could not wait, as on former occasions, to return him thanks, but sent Mr. Speaker to him at Brussels with a flattering message. But the Duke was ill at ease, for, as will presently appear, much had happened in 1707-08 in England, alike in the affairs of the nation and in the circle of the Court, which was not to his advantage. One reason why the Duke was anxious, at the very moment when congratulations over Oudenarde were pouring in upon him, was due to an act of indiscretion on the ...
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