Prince Or Creole: The Mystery of Louis XVII

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G. Banta publishing Company, 1905 - 309 páginas
 

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Página 42 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 26 - Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets...
Página 118 - Barrere, at all times ready to side with the most influential party, on the 12th of November ascended the rostrum, and read to the Convention, in the name of the Committee of Public Safety, a decree, or rather a Plcbeide, against Lyons. " Let Lyons be buried beneath her own ruins...
Página 42 - Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy.
Página 237 - ... some promise that I would not reveal to any one what he was going to say. I demurred to any such conditions being imposed previous to my being made acquainted with the nature of the subject, as there might be something in it, after all, prejudicial and injurious to others...
Página 42 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her MAEIE ANTOINETTE.
Página 237 - When the Prince had said this, I was much overcome, and thrown into a state of mind which you can easily imagine. In fact I hardly knew what to do or say, and my feelings were so much excited that I was like one in a dream, and much was said between us of which I can give but an indistinct account. However, I remember, I told him, his communication was so startling and unexpected, that he must forgive me for being incredulous, and that really I was " between two."
Página 196 - The response of the department was favorable, having doubtless been influenced by other parties moving1 for the same objects. "Thus, it is to be observed, that whether singular or not, there was a combination of influences, dissimilar in motive but perfectly consonant in purpose, all operating at the same moment in urging a removal of the New York Indians to Green Bay. Each one of the parties claimed the eclat of originating the scheme; we incline to the belief, however, that they all, the Land Company,...
Página 234 - Prince expressed his wish to take my son with him to France for an education. In connection with this he was informed that we had an infant who had not yet received baptism. He readily consented to stand as a godfather, and would give the name of his mother to the child. But, alas ! on my first landing I received the melancholy intelligence that the lovely babe was in her grave — buried on the preceding Sunday ; service performed by the Rev. Mr. Porter, of the Congregationalist Church.
Página 231 - ... former place bound to Chicago, which touched at Mackinac, and left me there, to await the arrival of the steamer from Buffalo to Green Bay. Vessels which had recently come in announced the speedy arrival of the Prince de Joinville ; public expectation was on tiptoe, and crowds were on the wharves. The steamer at length came in sight, salutes were fired and answered, the colors run up, and she came into port in fine style.

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