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168 MABIE ANTOINETTE.
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impossible p to wonder , at the exaggerated enthusiasm of , conlike h temporaries ero , written ther . C incinna The 177 lamentatio 5 , t us deep from n the of pression the loug beni h of to gnan sp lead irit t , th when t saddened forces called of
Americareads like a melancholy prop p hecy of the present time . be u U shea nhappy thed , i in t is a , " he ther exclaimed ' s breas , t " and that that a brother the once ' s sword happy should and
peaceful plains of America , are ; to be either drenched with bloodor inhabited Bslaves ! " The words are fulfilled in a
sense , which lie never an y ticipated . from The the term li " liber of t t y" as used le of France America , while was already echoe llable d
which was penned p by V peop oltaire , the exile of ; Ferney , every and the sy friend populace of Frederick No Bossuet Prussia , was and eagerl no earnest y devoured -minded hj t Pascal he excited as
p associated M hilosop acaulay h . has wi of th remarked philan ation throp in , came h F y rance , triump for , t h hed t to irreli over encoun g reli ion t g acciden ion the associa , t ally
ted with cruelty and social abuses . Meanwhile the indolent ~ V young ersailles nobili laug ty of the land , educa slept ted withou amids t fear t the feeling dissipa no tion t th e
ominous , tremblings , sang of , the soil beneath their , feet , which cowardland effeminate from customthwere afterwards to
abandon y , when it was shaken by the violence , ey of the tempest . spiri A t , animated enjoymen Marie t of Antoinette existence , and at this a fres epoch h exuberance of her life . f
ma Meanwhile tured by t the he hallowing intimate associations friendship wh of ich sorrow , was commence afterwards d between herself and the Princess de LambelleA , widow
with-. seclusion out being and a mo tears ther . , The Louisa of Savoy , passed saw her , her and days was in
attracted by the soft melanch young oly eyes queen , the tall and slender , form , destined and the to luxurian be hereafter t hair , dragged then fallin back g from upon the truthful tly lace brow , but
and atronize wound and round comfor th t th os m e w ho f an were un in pity sorro ing w assassin was al . To ,
p an amiable instinct of the queen ' s nature . So , she petted ways B the eaumarc princess hais de little Lam caring belle , what applauded her subjects Grluck , an thoug d encoura ht of g her ed
various tastes , . The impudent Beaumarchais with all his l owness gotism and of hi conce s ori it in , had . On the one good occasion sense never when to the blush ex-watch at the
naaker returning from g the audience chamber , , was insulted by a took nobleman care to who drop begged the valuable him to article examine heavil his on time the -p floor iece , and he
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168 Mabie Antoinette.
168 MABIE ANTOINETTE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 168, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/24/
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