Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-12-24
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Paris correspondent Of the London Literary Gazette
The Pains OF Royalty.

A'~ Il s-A4is "a AAOSstfts
Gossip still continues on the empress IT
certainly IS hard to conceive Il wilder freak. rs
tlr as appearances 90, and the details that
come Iver here, and oOze out into Paris sorie
ty through Belgium papers, are enough TO har-
row up the Outwardly decorOus French. and
freeze the marrow in their bones The story
goes not alone that las the Times saidl her
majesty lett the London Bridge station in
cab u, but in that indenlical vehicle her ma.
Jesty had to drive half over London before she
found suitable quarters in any hotel! All this
is commented OH in the tone which the perpe-
tratlon OF some heinous crime would be sDok
en- or and positively the empresss part is
very near beng taken, so severely is Partisan
propriety shocked When one thinks Of it
all, 1t really seems to be almost natural and
one cannot help recalling certain passages of
the earlier days Of the poor empress's imperial
state, and seeing how impatieuty she must
have borne her splendid letters. After she
had been about fortnight the wife of Louis
Napoleon, she issued her orders to some of the
ladies around her that walk should be taken
in the streets Of Paris. A walk Immediate.
" the grdHde maitresse Madame la Princess
d Essllng, made her appearance, saying she
was ready to accompany her MAJESTY any
where in a carriage AT which the unlucky
empress exclaimed, somewhat tartly, that she
"ttAtSNA - Vail iiot ilti company MS Is
the answer on record. And mysteries and
nervous attacks ensued, and the once SO indie
pendent Mdlle. de Nlontijo was shut up, "for
good and all, as little children term it, and
lett To mediate on the recent change in her
habits Of life. For two years this continued
until at last certain acts on the part of the EN-.
perer gave his consort the right as she
thought, to her liberty of action. Whilst
her lord was at Plombieres, in 1865 the
empress managed, most innoccuuy as we
should think, 10 amuse herself in pleas.
ant shooting, &c, at St. Cloud, and
thereat no less solemn a parsonage than Mar
shall Pelissier took exception, and advised
himself to lecture the Empress before all her
household, telling her the French did not like
such "eccentricites," and the poor empress
cried heartily, and said "she would not do so
any more J! Then she went to see the "TO-
ros, at ST. Sebastlan--a pastime of her own
countY-and they were teartulIy scandalized
at that, these everdecorous French; and in
short, on the whole, considering the extreme
ly unconventional mode of her unmarried
lie prolonged to the age OF 27l, the existence
OF the empress Eugene has not, since she en-
tered the Iuieries, been one of wholly unal.
Logged satisfaction. Two years ago to all this
was added the intense and narrowing fear of
assassination, and since the Orsini attempt
this has never entirely ceased. l have myself
often talked with ladies of the household. who
every now and then admit that the habt1al
life at the palace was distracted by eeaseless
alarms; )" and it is perfectly well known in a
certain set that for weeks together the unfor-
tunate empress has scarcely done anything
but weep and declare that she would set off
for Spain, and fly so dangerous a country as
France Alter all this, can it be wondered at
that she should desire little freedom, a little