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314 MADAME SWETCHINE.
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Tim Biography Of A Hussian Lady Of High ...
peror Alexander made arrangements for her conveyance on board a joy ship ful of emotion war , but fell she with was a never shock destined on a heart to see so France long * accnstonied again ; every to
grief and exile , and she sank away at fifty years of age within full vision of the promised land . Mademoiselle Golowine , who kept a
journal of the last days of their guest , records , that one day when she was reading prayers to the Princess , the latter seemed
particularly impressed with a prayer for patience , but taking notice that it extended to point where patience was likely to be required ,
she said on the every morrow , "My child , only read the part about illness ; I do not need that about the forgiveness of injuries . '' '' Nevertheless , "
replied Mademoiselle Golowine , _" a great deal of harm has been done you which you must now forget and forgive . " " No , " replied the
worthy friend of Louis XVI . and Marie Antoinette ; " nobody has done me harni ; or if I have forgotten itthis is not the moment
any , to call it to mind . " When the last prayers for the dying were being read over her , she exclaimed , "My God ; thou knowest how long
ago I offered up to Thee the renouncement of the dearest wish of heartthe happiness of seeing my King- in his native land !"
my These were ;— almost the last words she pronounced distinctly ; she died or the 2 nd of June 1814 and her corpse was embalmed and
taken to France , and buried , in , the Chapelle de Videville , under the care of the last of the race of Chatillon , her sister the Diichesse
d'Uzes . More than forty 3 _^ ears after , Madame Swetchine was affectionately received at the feudal Chateau de Fleuiywhich had passed
, into the hands of the nephew of the Prince de Tarente , and from thence she wrote to Mademoiselle Golowine , long since become the
Conitesse Fredro , and the mother of grown up sons . " Fleury .
66 My dear Prascovie , — -You must be very lonely without your son . I have no doubt that you control your sense of loss , but the word
control implies something which does not go well of its own accord , and is not as easy as running water . In a little room here , once
occupied by the Princesse de Tarente , and which happened to be open the other dayI was affected at seeing among the pictures which
ornamented the , walls , one of the interior of the library in the Rue de Perspective , with this inscription ; Madame la Princesse do Tarente ,
dans le cabinet de Madame la Comtesse de _Goloivine , 1801 . Relics of the past always stir the heart with a thousand tendernesses . Adieu ,
dear Pache "
( To be continued . )
314 Madame Swetchine.
314 MADAME SWETCHINE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/26/
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