At a ball given in her honour at Rome by the banker Tortonia, the Princess shocked even the least prudish by the abandon of her dancing and the tenuity of her costume, which, we are told, consisted of "a single embroidered garment, fastened beneath the bosom, without the shadow of a corset and without sleeves."

A jolly companion, not more prudish than a trooper, as frank and outspokennot as a sailor, for nowadays sailors are wily diplomatesbut as an honest man who has nothing in his life to hide, he walked with his head erect, and a mind content.

But you are prudish to-day, I fancy.

He dared say that she was not as prudish with the methodist parson.