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THE STORY OF QUEEN ISABEL. 305
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XLVII. - — THE STORY OF QUEEN ISABEL..__...
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V December Lias Not Everywhere In Englan...
by the writer , and which , she descended in company with her friends ,
in such perfect ease and safety : — -the cause of the accident being- the breaking of the chain when the skipcontaining a party of nine men ,
, was at the 130-fathom level , * and , as the men were so taken by surprise that the breaks were not appliedthe skip ran down the incline
, at an immense velocity , with a trail of about three tons of chain after it . It passed the 160-fathom level , where another party of men
were waiting to come up , so swiftly that the bewildered miners could only observe the mere shadow of the carriage , enveloped in a
misty cloud . The miners , from the hot air being so disturbed , thought the mine was on fire . They immediately went up over
the incline on foot to gain intelligence of their comrades , but it was quickly seen that the lives of the nine persons had been
sacrificed . _^ The skip went on its terrific downward course as far as the 190-fathom leveland having passed a " sollar " of woodwork ,
it reached the bottom , of the shaft . It was soon ascertained that all the miners were killed . We will not transcribe the painful
details given in the newspaper less than two months ago ; and only mention the fact as illustrating the dangerous toils of the
hardy Cornish men . —Ed . ]
The Story Of Queen Isabel. 305
THE STORY OF QUEEN ISABEL . 305
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XLVII . - — THE STORY OF QUEEN ISABEL . . __ . _^ ? _^
__ - A __ A Liittiie Book This Is, Bound...
__ __ A liiTTiiE book this is , bound in blue , and numbering only 111
pages , but containing therein so much that is beautiful as should surely find fit audience even were it few—and which we the more
desire to find for such poetry because it is distinguished by a quiet grace and reposeand a perfectness of execution which one would
expect to be mor , e characteristic of work done by women than we find it to be . For it is a singular and unexplained phenomenon
that when a woman does in any art overtop a level of elegant takes imperfectio critics n , b it y storm is most and often results to manifest in " Jane a E roug yre h , " vi or gour i ( Aurora which
Borg Leigh ia , " or or Norma " The Horsefair ; or , the scul _, " or pturing the rendering of a chained of Medea JZenobia , Lucrezia ; or the
, lashing of modern society in passionate novels wherein matters are not minced by any means .
But since Mrs . Norton ' s calm and exquisite tale of the _" Lady of La Graraye , " a white rose amongst poems , we have seen nothing
similar to " The Story of Queen Isabel , " and though perhaps it is hardly calculated to be as popular , it must linger in many
memories with similar sweetness . The villain of the story , wicked though he be , does not disturb
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/17/
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