AUSTRIA (mother of Louis XIV.), an example among all queens,
and almost among all women, of constancy in adversity, 17;
her reception of Mazarin after his exile, 18.

ANNE, Queen of England, her feeling towards the Whigs purely official,
and not a genuine sympathy, 206;
she secretly leans towards the Tories, as defender of the royal
prerogative, 206;
indolent and taciturn, she yields without resistance to the
ascendency of Sarah Jennings, 215;
her unhappy married life, 215;
the Queen and Sarah treat each other as equals, writing under
assumed names, 215;
state of parties on her accession, 218;
chooses a ministry combining both Whigs and Tories, 218;
entertains the Archduke Charles with truly royal magnificence, 218;
the Duchess of Marlborough surrounds the Queen with the chiefs of
the Whigs against her will, 222;
an endless succession of jars and piques between the Queen and the
Duchess, 222;
the insolence of the Mistress of the Robes towards the Queen, 226;
gives her favour and confidence to Mrs. Masham, 227;
Anne cautiously creeps out of her subjection to the Duchess, 230;
has some pangs of conscience in ill-treating Marlborough, 232;
gives up all regard for the Duchess or gratitude to the Duke, 233;
emancipates herself from obligations regardless of the confusion
into which she casts the country, 234;
intrigues of the bed-chamber, 234;
a weak woman domineered over by one attendant and wheedled and
flattered by another, 234;
gives herself up entirely to Mrs. Masham, 236;
dreading the furious violence of the Duchess, Anne leaves
London, 237;
spares the Duke and Duchess not from compassion but fear, 242;
terrified at the Duchess's threat to publish her letters, 242;
exonerates the Duchess from the charge of cheating, 243;
demands the return of the gold key from the Duchess, 244;
divides her Court places between Mrs. Masham and the Duchess of
Somerset, 245;
writes with her own hand the dismissal of the Duchess, and gives
herself up to her enemies, 246;
her apathetic remark on hearing that the Duke and Duchess had left
England, 248;
she never sees again her great general or the woman to whom she was
once so strongly attached, 248;
her conduct towards Madame des Ursins in the repudiation of
Lexington's conven