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240 MARIE ANTOINETTE.
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emotion , ye yet firm y in' the pressure g of their resolve ; and the form beautiful was , ted but with to a shadow the beauty , yet which drawn Albert to its Durer fullest would hei have ght ;
re Dolorosa cognized , beau , and tiful Ary with Scheffer the beaiit would of the have soul painted . —a Mater
quickl The y happy succeeded , interi by fresh allowed occupations by y the birth and distractions of her child . She was Madame de
tastes Poli was gnac loudl _, The y and censured Princesse severely for condemned de Lamballe friends for remonstrated hi t p with simplicity with of her her
for Dieu her ! . " exclaimed imprudence the in pt these iouA minor bbe de matters Vermon . t Oh er f ! ormer mon
cas , al and w fav b ouri e compressed te tutor , then bst you eel armour wish that lik her e a maj mar est sha y l should about
to leasur ays besieg e o e f wearin a fortres a s ? sim y F or robe pity ' s d sake , of , brea let th her ithe have air the at ng
the p any unhappy hour she queen plea g ses had , in yet p spite to of learn , gothic , by absurdities bitter experience . " But , t
maintaining affair that a of soverei the " ri d g iamond idl y f F the rance necklace ancient could / ' eti no sh quette t h be ad . too cause In circumspec the too sorrow painful in
the full and y Cardinal unreasonin , to regret de g having Bohan people . lost and The the j Madame story respect familiar , in de of whi la to an ch Motte the impressionable the , names figure in of of
readers the blackest that it shade would , is be alread useless y so to _- repeat it here . majority The innocence of , the queen of France , and her contempt for the jewels
which sufficientl had y established subjected her to all to such candid misery _^ observers and , sham without e , were the
240 Marie Antoinette.
240 MARIE ANTOINETTE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 240, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/24/
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