Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-10


waiting for developments. She advanced
his fortunes in every way, and he was
passive as clay in the hands of the potter.
de went on smoking cigarettes. She
mace him granGee of the first class
cigarettes She gave him the Golden
Fieece-clgarettes again. And BY Louis
Philippe created him Duke of Montmor-
OF Christina had already made him
Duke of Rianzares) and decorated him
with the Grand Cross OF the Legion of
Honor. This was to mark the citizen
Kings gratitude Tor Christmas pliancy
to French views on the question of the
Spanish marriages. He wanted her to
give one OF her daughters (by the first
husband) to his son, and another to an
ldlos, and she did both-with what results
Tor Spain, and for Isabella wha had the
idiot to her share, we all know. He in.
t1uenced her through her love for Rian-
zares, paying assiduous court to that
puzzled peasant at tins when the 9TH
er crowned heads of Europe would not
hear the mention of his name. Christina
could refuse him nothing after that. The
Dukedom OF Montmorot came after the
settlement of the Spanish marriages, and
no doubt thought she was amply paid.
This foreign recognition of her husband
was another step in his progress toward
very highest fortunes for which she des-
tined him. He was not to die mere
noble, She supplicated him to let him
self be made King Of Ecuador, and she
was ready to shed the best blood of
Spain to reconquer that South American
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upon throne. The offer bored him, and
to show how powerfully he was affected
by his partners project of ambition, it
may be stated that he left off smoking
cigarettes. She never preached the sub
Ject again. That momentarv spell of
distaste for his tobacco probably saved
the lives of q 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 Spain he used to 90 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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Like the
the wife of the wealthy cit in Pope's sat
ire, her motto of advice to him was sslive
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 well off; and So gradually, cool
ness sprang up between him and the ex-
on ha Of I, u
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. 1t 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. 1t 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
| a grandee as the best 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 grufly; and for man who
has not been borne to such things per-
haps that is the oaly way of bearing
them we'll. His curtness was easily and
perhaps not inaccurately taken for the
reserve Of force. For Indispensable
verbal civilities 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 accomplished
women Of her time.
All this while Christina was governing
Spain well Or i'll, and more often very ill.
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 Of the reyoca-
ton Of the law against female heirship to
che 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 CarIist
! faction. And when they had served her
turn, she handed them and the whole Ma
ton over to succession of the most arbi-
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 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, and 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 year. The child
of thirteen thus officially declared to be
q woman, there was no gainsaying her
wish to have her mother once more BY
her side, and Christina came back, in
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