The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-22

bag, the lids as red as scarlet, and the rest of |
his face a greenish yellow; the whole crown |
bald. He hath q ravenous stomach, and swal- |
lows all he eats whole for his neither jaw, like |
that of Charles V at a more advanced age,
stands SO much out that his two rows of teeth
cannot meet; TO compensate which he has a
prodigious wide throat, so that liver or gz-
zard of hen goes down whole"
Charles had been so tyrannized over by his
mother during her regency that he hated the
sight of a woman; he would turn away if he
met lady; his former governess the Mar
quesa de los Velez, had to wait six months to
get word from him; and when he was obliged
to receive a petition from q woman, he looked
another way.
such was the man who now, under one of
the strange caprices of a weak intellect,
rushed up the steps leading to the miserable
room in which sat the trembling Louise who
attempted several times to fall at his feet, but
he prevented her. Embracing the princess as
much as etiquette permitted kings of Spain to
embrace, by clasping her arms with his hands,
and looking fondly at her face, he calculated,
mi reyna mi reyna! !"
After her solemn entry into Madrid the young
! Queen began the life she was destined TO lead
to the end of her brief existence: life COM
! bining the jealous seclusion of the harem, the
lugubrious monotony of the cloister, and the
iron tyranny of Spanish etiquette personifed
! in the Terra Nueva, relieved only by occa-
! sional drives in a carriage with closed win
dows, according to the fashion of Spain,
stupid plays, hunting parties, and visits to
| AranjueZ and the Escorial at fixed times.
| For everything in the Court of Spain was
regulated like a clock; the only disarrange-
ment was when money was needed to carry
out the programme. The young Queen, in
desperation, seems to have taken to eating
as a way of killing time. Like lady of n
Moorish harem, she got fat on her seclu-
sion, and no wonder, if, as Madame de
Villars says, ''she sleeps ten or twelve
hours a day, and eats meat three or
four times a day" Pretty good for
Spain, where nobody eats as a rule, and at
a time when one of the grandest of the
grandees, the Duke of Albuquerque, the in
ventory of whose plate took six weeks to
write out, dined ordinarily on an egg and a
! pigeon. Indeed, what was poor young crea-
ture, shut up with her attendants, to do after
the gay open life of the French Court, where
she could move as free as air where the stair
cases and the ante-chambers were thronged
with brilliant ladies and gentlemen, and where
wit and gayety were ever effervescent in some
form or other? In the gloomy, desoate pal
ace of Madrid she was allowed hardly to see
a mans face. No balls, no public leOeeS, and
| c0ucLGrS, and toilets; no soirees, no plays, no
hunting parties but those of the gloomiest
character; no diversion but promenades in
carriages with closed windows, and these in
summer on the dusty bed of the Manzanares.
The Terra Nueva even informed her that a
queen of Spain must not look out of a win
dow; there was nothing to see from the win
dow but the blue sky and desert court of q
monastery; but even that diversion was too
exciting in the eyes of this she-dragon of et-
quette. To laugh was ever forbidden to a
queen of Spain.
The poor imbecile king did his best to
| ,,,,II opFa IL
would play with her at j0ncetS-whch appears
to have been an amusement of the nature of
that known among us as SpGHS--for three or
four hours day. The King had a frightful
jealousy of everything French. He had been
told by the Terra Nueva that his wife
was of a light nature, and that coming,
as she did, from light court, every
precaution was necessary The poor idiot
was so jealous at the sight of anything French
that he could not even endure the Queens
French spaniels, and cried when he entered
her apartments, F'uerd, tuerd, p6rreS frdR-
ceSSeS (Begone, begone, ye French dogs y
The Queen had two parrots who talked
French, and these with her spaniels were her
chief companions. Disappointed as it ap-
peared she was likely to be in the hope of
children, which, however, the King persisted
in looking for she concentrated all her affec-
ton on these pet creatures But the Terra
Nueva, herself hating all things French, and
trusting to alike hatred on the part of the King,
one day, when the Queen was out for drive,
twisted the parrots necks. On the return of
their mistress she called for her birds and her
dogs as usual. At the mention of her birds
the maids of honor looked at each other with
out speaking. The truth, however, was told;
and when the Camarera Mayor appeared to
kiss the Queens hand as usual, the meek
spirit of Marie Louise could endure no longer;
she gave the Terra Nueva two or three slaps
with her hand on either cheek.
The rage of the she-griffin, the descendant
of Fernando Cortez, the feudal proprietress of
Sicily and Spain, with her principality in Anne
rica was immense; she collected all her fOu1
hUHdrCd ladies, and went at the head of them
to the King to ask redress. The King betook
himself to the Queen, and asked for an expla-
nation; the Queen replied, ''Senor esta es un
antojo" (Sir, this is a longing of mine) This
dntQjO was devised with delicious malice by
the young Queen For not only in the case
of a royal lady, but in that of the humbest
woman of Spain, the dRtQj0 had prescriptive,
invariable privilege to be satisfied. Charles
was delighted with the dntQjO and its signi-
ficance, and declared to his Queen that if she
was not satisfied with two slaps of the face
she might give the Terra Nueva two dozen
more.
After tlis the Queen determined to get rid
of her Camerara Mayor, for her despotism was
quite intolerable On one occasion the Terra
Nueya saw, to her dissatisfaction, that the
front hair of the Queen not stiffened and
flattened down with proper Spanish rlgidlty
and precision; so the ugly harridan spat on
her shrivelled hand and applied it to the re-
belIious part Moreover, the jailoress ruth