The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-13

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cigarettes. She never preached the sub
ject again. That momentary spell o.
distaste for his tobacco probably saved
| the lives of hundred thousand men.
! His sister, the laundress, of course
struck work on her brothers elevation
and was provided for. He never turned
his back on her or her family; and until
long after he became Duke of Rianzares
and grandee of SPAN he used to 60 and
see her every week, his visits, however
gradually became less frequent as she
formed the habit of unconsciously second.
ing the Queen in importuning him with
schemes of aggrandizement. Like the
the wife of the wealthy cit in Pope's sat.
ire, her motto of advice to him was Give
like YOURSELF which in truth, meant "live
like somebody else who has no such sense
of the value of quiet life.'' His notion
of living like himself was to know when
he was we'll off; and so, gradually, cool
ness sprang up between him and the ex-
laundress on the ground of the difference
Of view. He found his most abiding sat-
isfaction in the society Of few of his old
comrades, who, since he could not come
down to their level, were promoted from
the ranks to bring them little nearer to
his. It was easy to do this without any
great scandal, because the Spaniards are
all fne-mannered by nature, having the
| root of the matter Of good breeding in
them, whatever their rank, in being
| wholly free from embarrassment and
false shame. It must be understood,
therefore, that Rianzares had gradually
become in outward bearing anything but
a clown. His peasant blood was shown
in his tastes, not in his address, and if he
broke down into shyness in his first inter-
view with Christina that was his only
failure of the kind. He looked as good
grandee as the besr of them, thanks to
his soldierly bearing and his handsome
face; and, as the caste does not
shine by its intelligence or education, his
blunt answers were as good as his fellow
mobiles bon mots. He bore his honors
somewhat grufHy: and for a man who
has not been borne to such things per-
haps that is the only way of bearing
them we'll. His curtness was easily and
perhaps not inaccurately taken for the
reserve of force. For indispensable
verbal civilitjes and such other conyen-
tionalities of courtesy as could not be
dispensed with in his new career he was
indebted to the constant coaching of the
Queen, one of the most accom- plished
women of her time. -..a.-. 49,.
All this while Christina was governing
Spain we'll or i'll, and more often very iii.
Her great object was to secure the success
sion of her daughter, Isabella, with real
power for himself as Regent for the child.
To this end, after successfully wheedling
her first husband in favor ct the revoca-
ton of the law against female heirship to
the throne, she proceeded to try the same
experiment with the Nation on larger
scale. The Liberals shed their blood for
her in long and bitter civil war against
the, perhaps, better claim of the heir male
as represented by the head of the Carlist
faction. And when they had served her
turn, she handed them and the whole Ma
ton over to succession of the most arDi-
trary Ministers ever known in modern
times. There was but one remedy-an-
other civil war-and she had to run for
her life. Isabella, then but nine years
old, was left behind as a warming-pan
under the tutelage of Espartero. Rian-
zares, of course, went with his wife to
France. Louis Philippe at first received
him rather coolly, but remembering that
the exiled Queen had still royal
daughter to marry, end that the way to
her heart was through the show OF re-
spect to her peasant husband, he soon
altered his demeanor. christina soon
began to pave the way for her return BY
palace plots; and when she thought the
Nation might be induced to bear with her
once more, she found means to get the
Cortes to advance the period OF Isabella's
coming OF age by about a year. The child
Of thirteen thus officially declared to be
woman, there was no gainsaying her
wish to have her mother once more byt
her side, and Christina came back. in
reality, though not in name, to exercise
all her old power. Her first act was to
obtain the public ratification OF her mar
rage with Rianzares and to legitimatize
their children Lone Of them known to-day
as the Princess del Drogo, another as the
Marchioness of Campo Sagrado. i. .s3
Her second essay in government lasted 1
eleven years eleven years Of trial for her
and for the people. She was child in
politics, or I was going to say, what was
just as bad, woman, only I remember
there have been too many exceptions Of
high feminine competence in affairs to
maze it possible for them to prove my
rule. She was without the most elemen-
tary notions Of the tendencies Of her
time. She wanted to govern . Nation
ike nursery, and her only remedy for
popular disafection was moro rod. At
length she had to be driven out once
more, and this time for good, as ruler,
though she now and then revisited Spain
as tourist. The palace was almost as
tired of her as the country, for there had
been frequent chickering's in the Royal |
family through Isabella's want of respect
for her step-father. When Isabella was
but Queen she had to speak Of "Papa
Rianzares'' with every show OF dutiful
respect; wien she became both a queen
and woman she could venture to give
the words an infection of disdain that