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62 TRAVELS
her falary to be ever encreafed. ‘ Very well,” faid the lady,
«then I demand my difmiffion.” “ You fhall neither be dif-
«miffed, nor better paid.” ‘* O! then I hall make my efcape—
“ fly from the country, and never fhew my face in it again.”
*« You may try, but you will probably not find it very eafy to get
out of the kingdom, if I forbid it.” A fhort time after, notwith-
ftanding the vigilance with which fhe was watched by order of
the court, fhe fucceeded in her plan, and at the laft poft-houfe
wrote in the day-book the following lines to the king: “ Sire, it
“is much eafier to efcape from your kingdom than you fuppofe.”
She defired that this day-book might be fhewn to his majefty ;
and as a curiofity it was fent to him. She then went to Copen-
hagen, where being known and received with great applaufe, fhe
attached herfelf to that ftage. ‘The king of Sweden, fome time
after, made new propofals to her, which fhe at firft treated with
great difdain, but at length haying obtained the fum fhe de-
manded, fhe returned in trrumph to Stockholm.
The concerts and balls which are given in the winter feafon are
thofe at the Exchange, Vauxhall: and fome particular focieties
and private houfes. As to the concerts at the Hall of the Knights,
they are fcarce worth mentioning, becaufe they are in general made
up of the fame fingers and the fame band as the former.. The
foreign virtuofi, who pafling through this city go to hear them,
are always difappointed, and almoft in every refpect diffatisfied..
One of the principal public amufements in winter are the balls at
* the Exchange. To the lovers of dancing thefe are a very great
refource..
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