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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 137
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instruction of the Comte de Paris , and , on tlie 20 th . of July , 1850 , assisted , with the King and Queen of the French , at his first
communion . A little more than a month from that date , on the 2 6 th of August ,
Louis Philippe " -closed his life , as he had passed his youth , in exile . " While the fate of Franceand the form of government , were as yet
uncertainthe Duchess of , Orleansin the midst of all her affliction at the disordered , and unhappy condition , of the country she loved
so dearly , cherished patience and hope ; but the coup d ' etat and its results inspired her with profound and bitter grief .
of " " the S ' E he admirable very tried tiling to feel give submission s me pain I / , irritated she but said her , heart at ' yes not , everything rebelled seeing . ; even indi the sanctity t . She
has a word of indul queen gence . and am charity for everybody . As for me gnan I cannot—' and she burst into tears . that word
a Were , these the tears of disappointed ambition ? No "—if by is means understood the sadness the of defeat a heart of sordid whose desires and and selfish ardent pro self jects -devotion ; yes— is if left it generous
without t of all aim the l an hopes object it and ; the proj melanchol ects less of to their her y fee life country ling ; and with , and worse , which their than she cause all viewed , the to thoug w the hich wreck ht her of
the the sons patriotic faith seeme ess which d de indi stined s forbade en gnation ce . , use She her ( well to wore let justified herself bitterness b out the take in recent an possession inward events strugg of in , her France le soul bet ) , ween with and
which she found it difficult not to mix more y of personal resentments than Christianity sanctions . "
To relieve the depression and ennui of her painful and restricted lifetowards the close of 1851 and part of 1852 , the mother and
her , young sons visited Germany and Switzerland , returning to take up their winter abode in Devonshire . Upon the occasion of a
visit by sea to Mount Edgecumbeof " The terror boat I inclined smiled when for an I recollected instant to those one side appalling , the princess dangers uttered which a had cry
moments not even . blanched of her life her . cheeks I do . not I think observe she that is conscious she never of speaks the matchless of those ied with herself
courage she exhibited at that time , for she is never occup when she acts . "
In the spring of 1857 , the princess took a house at Ditton , that she miht be in the neihbourhood of Claremont and Twickenham .
The summer g of 185 7 is g described as " a momentary respite from sorrow " to the royal family .
them characters " I acquire feel inexpressible unfold strength themselve in happ all that s iness agreeabl is , " good said y she to in my in seeing a fondest letter their , " wi in shes seeing ; hearts in my seeing sons ex- '
; young pand with an almost fraternal—I might say , paternal—tenderness for me , watching Meldest over son is their at an mother which as if seems she were to me confided the most to cheering their care in . the * life * of y age
and p man les the that ; he freshness have has all never of the earl been candor impressions exposed of childhood to the and , friction the to these unsullied or he the join integrity taint s a of wing the of princi world firm - - ,
ness of character , a tlioug y htfulness which ; compensates for defective gro
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Notices Of Books. 137
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 137
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/65/
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