Faces and Places

ve grown accustomed t

his personality, real

er side of the Atlant

very strange phenom

is to conceive its cre

ugh the history of E

A child is born in ac

ections that might j

some other entity. He

nhood, and all the st

ce, he is made the o

ants are provided for

to be considered whe

rliament, in the camp

coming, and high-b

e; but so is the risi

We grow accustomed t

ike the solar system

ngularity of his pos

er in which the Prince

no post in English pu

out reproach, but with

r the bull's-eye ligh

more talked about, wr

man, except, perhaps,

level ground with hi

nted, he can hit back

poses upon him the imp

practice. Whatever is

eply, and the happy r

essary attitude sugge

e more wide

unhappy night when t

candal was on everybod

quarters of an hour. B

sign. To see him sitt

that famous trial was

of the fact, would ha

interest in the affai

e attitude of indiffer

iling, debonair and c

watching the developm

He has all the coura

g has steele

or the Prince of Wale

m the affection which

enty of precedents, a

xample, his relations

for him now, as a Prin

tury, to form a Parl

e House of Commons

t he might, if he wer

politics. As a matter

the Prince, the outsi

h side of politics his

vate life, what he eat

ks to, what he does

rises to the decidedl

ll the gossip daily p

as to whether he prefe

pany of Lord Salisb

ry man in whatever sta

great thing to say for

ince o

tiality of attitude

ics or to the current

of Parliament, sits a

s in the division list

ny important debate i

e found in his corner

stener. Nor does he co

se of Lords. In the Co

his seated in the P

ands irreproachably

leans forward and watc

mes tumult

oon in the spring of t

a speech with which hi

ed. The House was cr

ng the Prince's suite

ount Munster, German

ided by the partiti

apart for distinguish

. Chaplin, who sat be

almost audibly purri

few days earlier the

he resentment of Mr.

oseph Gillis was now

bout to call on the

r Cavan rose

believe there are str

ns, tied and bound

appeal against the w

strangers in due form

the Prince of Wales a

llowing, and by anothe

of the Continent, repr

he overthrow of Fran

at the raising of the

, when not concerned

as curing bacon at Bel

o the Saxon in th

re this unparalleled i

his richest endowment

f being amused and i

on his day's labour b

armed revolt if he we

as the Prince habitu

ibly boring, but the

ll an ordinary man. H

h all the varying duti

say and do the right t

way a useful one, and m

l

Wales moving through

public meeting or a

ugh House on the occas

me faint idea of the st

cing rapidly along th

he can make happy for

f there were one ther

ssed over, the Prince

the heart

er at the garden party

rave men and fair wome

in days gone by to b

mperative duty laid u

nition. Now, when he

it for her. Escorti

glances swiftly to ri

thinks the Queen shoul

ereupon does her share

human h

ying, all very strange

rder of things, it ha

ly work, and it is im

er appearance of real

ctive