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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: herself did not dance on account of her mourning for Prince Albert's
grandmother. There was another band and dancing in other rooms at
the same time. After seeing several dances here the Queen and her
suite move by the flourish of trumpets to another room, the guests
forming a lane as she passes, bowing and smiling. Afterward she
made a similar progress to supper, her household officers moving
backwards before her, and her ladies and royal relatives and friends
following. At half-past one Her Majesty retired and the guests
departed, such as did not have to wait two hours for their
carriages. On Saturday we went at two to the FETE of flowers at
Chiswick, and at half-past seven dined at Lord Monteagle's to meet
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