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236 MARIE ANTOINETTE.
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him sagaciousl The to utter remember y remonstrated absence that of his tact with " role disp his " layed was incautious simp bthe ly to thoug broth be er _" htless aristocrat ? imp young loring . " *
queen ive all was offences even to more which apparent she had . been In vain obli y ged did she to submit gracefull previous y
forg to the accession of her husband , and generously renounce a tax which of France had form Her erl enemies y been exacted did not for forget the to benefit remark of that the Queens whilst
and discovered she showered poets . were that all Marie entirel her favours Antoinette y neglected upon never b music y her understood . and It was Gluck triump a , _, sing the le hantl artists word y at
tion Vienna of the on . the elaborate Her part taste of Latin the was public intentio harangues to nall hiss which y ridiculed the she plays b had y which a repeated determ she ina had - in
tators theatricals patronized did not , ; her and care utter when to conceal incapacity she attempted their was scorn so to evident perform that the private
spec-. from The her unfortunat birthand e lad nursed y , who like had a hot been -house pamp flower ered in and an flatt atmos ered
mortifications phere of luxury , of and life eas and e , did was not keenl care y to sensitive conceal to how the cruell petty y
was ness she suffered , succeeded which . unfortun by The a temporary settled , ately re disp sentm irritation layed ent to and which unfair an lasted un advantage natural for a bitter time the - ,
weaker side of her character . unshadowed chil But d , looking a few years life forward , before and in rejoicing , foolish Marie certaint Antoinette in the y homag to had the reach e been pleasures of her a an reckless in entire of the an
brillian nation ; t ignorant lendour of of any her lot sorrows and read which y to could hope for anything in the promising sp futurewith a , ic land of leasure and delight
, magp bittered stretching by before the knowled her eager of feet evil . Now and she stun was into a woman passion , em ate
ge , g to intensity challenge by the her cruel enemies calumniation to do their s of worst others , — and alread determined y prepared to
act out the terrible drama to the end—already alone against a peop and le desperate who hated in her the , grand in of the her strength despair of Not " her "being resolution suffi- ,
ciently lished "brilliant women in her power st who yle , or had witty begun in her to . speech preside , to over rival the the
accomp " salons" of the day , it would have "been well if Marie Antoinette beholding that had popul possessed arity and the influence self-renunciation which she necessary had valued to
as exclusively her own , now passing over to into back the to hands herself of
at others all risks ; but the in wan her ing determined power , she attempt imprudentl * win y cast away the prestige of her rank , and was loudly accused of frivolity and
236 Marie Antoinette.
236 MARIE ANTOINETTE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/20/
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