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162 MABIE ANTOINETTE.
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special offences . History illustrates this . Caesar is traitorous to Pompeybut lie falls by the hand of treacherous Brutus .
The _Norman , conqueror usurps the dominions of another , but he perishes miserably in his native country . Proud Elizabeth
turns a deaf ear to a woman ' s sorrow , and has no pity for a woman ' s anguish ; yet she herself dies broken-hearted—a
spectacle to Europe of the weakness of a woman's nature . Wretched Jeffries invents every plan which the refinement of
cruelty can suggest to humiliate and torture his victims ; but he too is pursued on his death-bed by the keen retribution of
obloquy and scorn , he is spurned like a worm out of existence , * anathemas and is overwhelmed on his poor by guilt the cries y head of . his Napoleon fellow creatures ' s wars leave , hurling the
chasm of a whole generation ; but he who made mothers childless , perishes , unsoothed by the sympathy of sorrowing
wife or tearful friends alone and an exile . and Instances the moral more of s them triking is then lain these but mi the ght sensitive easily be reader multip turns lied _^
with a more painful shrinking p from ; the piteous story of those unhappy oneswho have been doomedas it wereto encounter
the dread retribution , of the sins of their , forefathers , and whose virtuous and well-intentioned lives have met with , a hastl
ending through the determined hatred of the avengers of g blood y 'which thnever shed .
ey p The icture Few atmosp of spectacles the here court was are of alread France more impregnated , appalling during the in with rei history gn revolutionism of Louis than XV the . .
Scepticism and profanity wer y e the badge of wit and of learning ; madness while the , gail infatuated y hastened beholders to involve , overtaken themselves by still a bewildering further in
the eddies of that threatening " deluge" which Pompadour luxurious merrily predicted viands — the rouge luscious , patches music , powder of Farinelli , elegant the garments dazzling ,
flare assembled of the guests myriad , could lig do hts little , and to the obliterate wild laug the , hter recollections of the
of the hideous skeleton , of misery and ruin that were ever present at the feasts .
flattered days The in worldl ; the ing y meek and and and prosperous suffering the untried Marie Marie captives Leckzinsk Theresa rotted fawned y spent in their and her
dungeons weep , and the starving prayer ; ravened for bread ; but stillwith hollow mirth in the brilliant palaceking and courtiers jested ,
and icted capered in his in festivities as ghastl , y as ' Hans Holbein has
dep" Dance of Death : " whilst far away the murmuring after sound of the gathering waters might be heard , as
aveng wave ing inundations wave was added which with the ominous cruel Marchioness roar , to comp foretold lete the .
162 Mabie Antoinette.
162 MABIE ANTOINETTE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/18/
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