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    242 MARIE ANTOINETTE.

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    tion q of her fate . For her ambition , had been y , to be universall p y belovedand she struggled with desperate determination to win

    her the eyes admiration , grew weak of others with weep ; while ing , her as fresh beauty proofs faded of the away popular , and

    scorn sank into her wounded heart . scenes Our limits which do succeeded not permit —scenes us to follow which her have throug been h the alread tragical so

    skilfully painted by the pen of experienced historians as to require no additional touches .

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    love was then and a rejoicing hadowed girl , happy the in faintest the confidence dream of of a her peop dark le ' s

    destiny , . To the collectors y of curious presentiments this story of Goethe ' s unwonted depression may perhaps be worthy of

    notice . " Faultsand not crimes" was the unhappy queen ' s just

    , , less summary hardly of , since the , history if her ill of -governed her life . imprudence Posterity will hastened judg * e her the

    vi blood ils y and ending was of buried her husband In his ' hastl s life , she shared . Jealousy his melanchol of others y

    of g her , sex was amongst the g most y characteris grave tic of her weaknessesFretted and annoyed at their superior intellectual

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    eager craving for kindliness and , sympathy g which animated her amiable nature ? and yet in her casejealousy was but the

    shadow She was cast by a stranger the brightness , misunderstood of her affection , and . ill-judged , in a

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    comfort to hope y that g in the dreariest days of her sorrow her impetuous nature pro , bably lost something of this early

    sensitiveness , and that a merciful callousness to pain ameliorated

    242 Marie Antoinette.

    242 MARIE ANTOINETTE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/26/