The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-01
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The Quarterly Review.
In 1869 Bossuethad delivered his ceIe-
brated funeral Grafton for the widowed
queen, at whose death nothing but iii
suddenness prevented him from being
present. In the following year, the
daughter being suddenly struck, whom
at Versailles, By q mortal sickness, sup
posed to have been the effect Of poison
administered by the creatures Of her
reprobate husband, cried out in her ag-
onies that Bousset should be instantly
sent for and brought to her bedside.
While couriers were dispatched in hot.
haste to fetch him from Paris she made
her confession and received the last sac
raments, much distressed, it is said, by
the "infexible severity" Of the priest in
attendance, and anxiously Watching the
door for Bousset's arrival. It was past
midnight when he came, and
she Immediately e1ncted from
him a promise that he
would not leave her as long as she
breathed. With the cruciix in his
clasped hands on which the queen
mother, Anne OF Austria, not long be-
fore had breathed her dying kiss, he
threw himself on his knees by the bed
side; and as the life of the Inflated
princess rapidly ebbed away he wept
and prayed with her, with words so
full of consolation and faith that the
people of the court, who, as usual,
crowded the chamber, were melted in
to passionate tears by the scene. With
in IN hour of her death, whispering in
English, that Bossuet might not un-8
derstand, she desired that a superb em-s
erald and diamond ring she wore
5hould be given to him as q memorial
when all wa over She expired at 5
a. NJ, only nine hours after the seizure,
and the ring with the message was Inn
mediateIy conveyed by Mime. Lafayette
to the king, who sent for Bossuet,
placed the jewel on his finger, and
charged him to wear it always, and To
preach the princess funeral discourse.
As soo as the incident got wind Boss
suet was congratulated by the cour-
tiers, who at the same time expressed
a regret that the proprietors OF
the pulpit would scarcely admit Of
his mentioning a circumstance 30 hon
orable to the departed princess and to
himself. aWhy not?" was his reply;
which, flying from lip to lip, excited an
eager curiosity to see how the grent Or
ator would carry out his implied inten-
ton. It was not till near the end Of
the discourse that their curiosity was
gratifed, and it was in . way that took
them by surprise. Among the virtues
of the departed, Bossuet found occasion
to commemorate not only her liberali-
ty, but the pleasing grace with which
she enhanced the value Of her gifts:
This art Of giving gracefully he
added, (which she 50 we'll practiced IN
life, accompanied her-I know it-into
the very arms Of DEATH Those three
words, 4Je le sails. pronounced with s
sudden emphasis and q gesturesof the
hand sparkling with the well-known
jewel electrified the brilliant audien ca,
WHICH was so much moved BY admira-
ton of the orators address ia dealing
with SO delicate a matter as it had been
previously thrilled by his pashos in de-
picting the CONSERVATION 81 that night
Of horror, when the precincts Of the
court rang withthe terrible cry Madam
is dyirg-madam is dead