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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 135
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The Mrs Duchess . Austin. Of With Orlean...
tions irl , and ' they here have is one calculated for a little on child _every- ! bod ' y These ; here words are garlands touched the for princess a young ,
who g shall The , no prince not doubt be for smiled thoug child , ht of it , her taking absent perhaps her children hand be for , , continued and a man her of eyes , i thirty "Well filled -two then with ! , ' tears She , it .
proached finitel raised y sadder him head with . a But directl try he , ing y soon , may to and banish succeeded , looking one in him sorrowful _diver in ting the thoug her face mind , affectionatel b , y and another this y last in re-
journey which they took together ended cheerfully . ' But tMs was not the only evil omen which met tlie ill-fated
couple . her Towards and seeing evening her the gather prince visited mountain the pretty fLowers valle he y of lucked Saint Loup bunch with of
flowers wild , Scabious attracted on , * and no attention brought them some but to their her . sad At signific the moment ance , af p , t these erwards melanchol recurred y
to those who saw them gathered , . " On the 7 th of Julthe prince left herand on the 11 th the fatal
y , accident occurred which parted them in this world for ever . How carefully and tenderly the mournful news was broken to
her—" the Prince Royal is dangerously ill ! " being all the attendants dared to announce ; the sudden anguish and intuitive conthen
viction that he was dead ; the wild prayer and wilder agony ; the firm determination , " I will set out this instant , perhaps I may ht clock in the
still be in time to nurse him ; " the departure at eigo ' even coming ing in ; th the e encoun direction terin of g a Paris t one , from ' clock which in the stepped morning M a . carriage Chomel , fatal
p profound answers hysician ; darkness to the the outb royal , wee urst famil p of ing grief y in ; her the sat as frantic carriage " she the questioning sat with on the vainl the hi and g doors h-road the open , in to ,
while contain the their persons own grief of her ; " where suite in the on pages step of fiction s and y striving romance shall we find situations so pitiful and pathetic , grief more overand
whelming , or , as was subsequently shown , so nobly courageous Five ly sustained months ? after this fatal event , the bereaved wife writes
thus : — unshaken " Yes , the convi Lord tion who smites when us I cannot is a merciful feel the father soothing . Of consolation this I have which an
fai it oug th . ht Sometimes to bestow c . I feel , I even am this suffering very powerfull under y a , _and trial in which those moments demands love implicit and from hihbut at otHers feel the
shall myself wretchedness hope are we up no gran t to have ted and God patience infirmity to . me But like to of wh endure rays our at p nature atience the burthen , on and must i g t He is He ; impossible lays have upon with for us me us ? I " ! to raise And
And later : — sof " ter God tears has — had I could pity almost upon me say , He tears has of given joy . me My grace heart has to be been able penetrated to shed
, ** Called in France , " La fleur des veuves . "— _Transit i
Notices Of Books. 135
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 135
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/63/
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