The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-25

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In 1869 Bossuet had delivered his ceIe-
bratsd funeral GRAFTON for the widowed
queen, at whose death nothiag but it's
s~uddenness prevented him from being
present. Ia the following year, the
daughter being Suddenly struck, when
at Versailles, by a 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, mnch distressed, it IS said, BY
the "infexible severity Of the priest in
attendance, and anxiously watching the
door for Bousset's arrival. 1t was past
midnight when he came, and
she Immediately exacted from
him a promise that he
would not leave her as long as she
breathed. With the crucifix in bis
clasped hands on which the queen
mother, Anne OF Austria, not long be-
fore had breathed her dying kiss, he
threw himself en- his kaeas by he 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 an hour Of her death, whispering In
English, that Bossuet might not I'M
derstand, she desired that q superb en-
erald and diamond ring she wore
should be given to him as a memorial
when all was over. She expiro1 at B
a. ms, only nine hours after the seizure,
and the ring with the message was iml
mediately conveyed by Mime. Lafayette
to the king, who sent for B~ossuet..
placed the jewel on his finger, and
charged him to wear IL always, and to
preach the princess funeral discourse.
As soon as the incident got wind Bes.
suet was congratulated by the cour-
tiers, who at the n time expressed
q regret that the proprietors Of
the pulpit would scarcely admit Of
his mentioning a circumstance SO hon
orable TO the departed princess and ia
himself. aWhy not?" was his reply;
which, flying from lip to lip, excited an
eager curiosity to see how the great orr
ator would carry out his implied inten-
tion. 1t was not till near the end Of
the discourse that their curiosity was
gratifed, and it was In d 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.
ssThis art Of giving gracefully : he
added, which she SO well practiced IN
life, accompanied heg-I know it--into
Che very arms Of death Those three
words, "Je le sails, . pronounced with q
sudden emphasis and u gesture Of the
hand sparkling with the well-known
jewel electrified the brilliant audien ce,
which was SO much moved by admira-
ton of the orators address In dealing
with SO delicate a matter as it had been
previously thrilled by his pathos III de-
picting the CONSERVATION OF that night
Of horror, when the precincts Of the
court rang with the terrible cry Madam
is dyiEg-madam is dead"