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FRAU BATH. 375
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first about hear to be of crowned her when of Roman the Charles most Emperor brilliant Albert . This , and event , the recorded celebration , was in of which was one 12 th of February pompous 1744 and
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and ten years later , she herself g following her impression . " I followed his noble him features everywhere and princel , into y ojiurches bearing produced and to public upon him kneel the
last places bench ; I , admired praying his among large beggars dark he eyes , lifted and , I when saw his , affcer the having melanchol upon rested
his and head at the for same awhile time in di his gnified hand expression , of them eyes , seemed to tell y a tale of and sorrowI felt an electric shock thrill through
woe . like my whole an frame leaf . When and one I heard day when his name he drove mentioned past me I I quivered jumped
upon This a stone aspen first and burst gave , of feeling a loud Hurrah in the !" bosom of the growing girl , and noble
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Frau Bath. 375
FRAU BATH . 375
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/15/
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