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MAEIE ANTOINETTE. 165
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be admitt s ed the ignorant Queen , was mp great ly in advance did of , ri a t ge )
l were sources she could of fresh sit scandal cased in and buckram bitter offence in a hea . t She ed unvent g h ted so
of room ong conduc , gambl t ing supposed at cards , till to a late token hour an , at ni uall gh y t— -balanced such a course
wellre look gulated at the mind was stars . or But to to love be to fond listen of fresh silence q air ,, and to the to v like oice t o f , tastes which
evinced all the , mos to have t a ancient morbid an ob preacher and jectio degenerate n — to Ni st g ht ; temperament , and these to were rebel ti . ht agains And above t the
reach fashion confinin an g o enorm f li rainin the ity g a crim ag clear ile fi gure comp to in lexion be a tray palisade an by inhe o g f iron t lacing de ; f was ec , t o or to f
, charac Of th ter difficult offences to overcome and others . of their trivial nature , at one
time of her lifeM , arie was undoubtedly guilty . That she p too af ruden terwards reg t ardless , were became probabl of , injunctions too y careles mainl which y s t o f the were ' attributed pre in judices a t measure to t of the and thers falsehood wise t , and and the
w cruel hich bac she kbiting had discovered of others in who those had whom flattered she rus her to , her face . As the ears assed onand she turned with proud independence
and disda y in p from the , sneers of a Parisian naobcloud after f cloud ormer aro l s s eemed to flec so k in bri ht f i nous tellin manner alread her y the , y which shipwreck had g
k which temperament eenly was y from to come of the Marie . reproach A g Antoinette woman , of of publi at , the must times c sensitiv op always inion e the . and hav Stung e disdainful suffered and
reports maddened support wh of ich she her reached mi husban ght have d her ' s enduring , been had it not affection been by . for On the concerned humiliating the powerful whole ,
Louis " the Desired" wasas far as his wife was , a apathetic strong and in reliable character man there . , Louis was / nothing XVI . was brilliant stolid about and rather him .
intellectual generosity With the amiable of calibre his . disposition mother , Little , , he of stern the had sense ambition inherited of duty and her , and powerful inferior rare
he comprehensio endowed with n of the Louis wit XIV and . had elegant descended taste of to his him dissi , nor pated was
Maeie Antoinette. 165
MAEIE ANTOINETTE . 165
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 165, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/21/
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