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MABIE ANTOINETTE. 163
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She amid did the not glittering escape the gilt Nemesis work . of D Vers ying ailles in a ; state the apartment scaffold of ,
Marie Antionette was enviable as a bed of roses , when compared with her mocking splendour . She was and destined fated to to
becom outlive a the byeword beauty of which detestation she had to worshi the crowds pped , whose applause
rubbish she had e from sought the . palace Her scorned where remains she had were lived to unlove be cast d , and out her as
funeral who conclusion jested elegy of as was her the to story hearse be the in rumbled its witty concentrated remarks through of the misery its gateway sav and age . owner horror The ,
rank Yet s in if trag possible ic blackness it is exceeded with the b memory y the picture of Jezebel of Louis . XV . ;
v little of weary annihilation imag , of life ined and , others si , yet ghing terrified overheard and murmurin at , and death then , g long at hastening ing him for self the when to refug drown he e
youthful the his A g freshness strange loomy Daup antici home of hine pations her , must in youth the in this gaiety fresh and hav excitement e beauty of been her . sixte to Del be and en i entered htful revelry summers was . by , and her the
of departure her satisfied from her mother native yet lan ring d , with ing in the her triump ears , hant and g felicitations with
everyp thing icture that her was full of new expectation and pleasing and h on wonder the her rich — journey luxuriance passing . , with We of can her the
littl Himmelreich e caravan of across attendants the narrow , throug paths which had been hewn for her throug , h the wild and magnificent rocks of the
as Hollenpass the thundering , the impetuous lause torrent of the foaming le greeted underneath the bride , even of
their future king- on app her arrival at the peop streets of Paris . But the heart of the maiden must have sunk within her of her
find her when and nature every her she associates -day came , and life to impetuous . ? experience Full Where of in health was the her she actu and actions to al buoyan realities look , where cy for , impulsive was sympath she new y in to ?
had Not and unformed chosen in the " for bi in g her m lubb anner husband erl , y regarded boy and . " Pie did whom , his undeveloped little innocent her to man hide young ag in his ing character bride moth as er ,
a wearisome state infliction objection to etiquette the nuisance , soured . fro Not m in tunate misfortune the , stiff melanchol , and entered susp y icious aunts her , from wedded frigid bitter from life
with experience no counsellor . The unfo to hel r p her in princess the trying path which she was showers of
water to tread and ; whils the t fireworks , in vain flashed the fountains in brilliant threw constellations up at , hundred human
sacrifices the magnificent were crushed marriage to fe death stivities in . the Three confusion of an ill-
Mabie Antoinette. 163
MABIE ANTOINETTE . 163
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/19/
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