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164 MARIE ANTOINETTE.
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ordered crowd , and superstitious " beldames shook tlieir hoarywh old ich heads over a threw t this the sini f ounda ter omen tions , rem of ember Lisbon ing * the the earth day qua when ke
t the ransi Daup tion hine and was fitted born by . the Poor infirmities child ! Living of her i nature n an age to be of
the tool and , victim of , the machinations of others , littl , e hope was there for her to e from the nets and itfalls before
her . Still , for a time escap she was the one bright fi p gure in that dismal society , from which the nun Louise fled terrified to the
before refu strange ge us of fascination for a convent throwing — ; a and fres figure h we li upon ht thank which the the author history the eye of of her the ts wi times book th a .
That is a merciful g t upon of Providence which has hid arrangemen l t he ft future even a from corner our of gaz the e , veil for wou to k ld now often wha be t is to before deprive us , or fe o to f
wretchedness all its freshness of Damocles , and to . reduce some of us to the continual
her F or awhile . , the Her daug youth hter was of like Maria a lad Theresa spring was full blissfu of swee l in t
p irlish romises gnorance na and ture ha she ppy an k ti cipations too con . fid Trustful in g lin and fearless , an un in tr her ied
face g as if she , took it for her mother ' s . g Full y of many wonder at the attrac , tions of the world around her 5 she hastened to enjoy its
o g f ladness disappointment with a tremour ; her elasti of expectation c spirits refusing , and cou to ld yield not t dream o the
warm pressure affections of conventionality of her confiding . All this heart was were against chilled her ; and by the the
d cruel iscern sus t p icions revers of oth side ers . of The th unhappy e leasing Daup hine ture was while soon to
sensitive spirit was early doomed p to smart p under , that bitter detraction which is the meanest and most contemptible artifice
education of petty jealousy which ages . An its experience soon . Mari of e was grievous a thoug wrong htless i child s an
with when the she sported Countess with d'Artois the Daup l hin hing 's brother at her ; and loomy gossi and ped .
abstracted husband . She was , alread aug y a disappointed g woman "when the infected of Louis the well-beloved" was
deserted by the pitiless corpse courtiers ; and she , covering her face crowd in her exclaiming handkerchief " , We wept are at too the young greetings to reign of . the " subservient
The , future had already lost its brilliant illusion for her ; the nun early Louise morning who mist was had watching cleared and away betimes ing alone , and probabl without y fear the
looked of infection forward , , over with the unembalmed calmer antici body pray pation of her to forsaken , the peaceful father _,,
de monotony L'Etiquette of her " own ( as unohequered the Queen life of . France Henceforth had , " p Madam layfully e
164 Marie Antoinette.
164 MARIE ANTOINETTE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/20/
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