New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18

chatham found on n commode an old piece OF
bread so venerable 10 be painfully dry anu
hard The young daughter of line OF Nlhss
seized the crust and breaking II IN TWO wa"
difficulty gave her old friend half OF H. one
said I'm Il touching voice which shall never lot
get" writes the Duchesse. IT shall never DE
said tina; did no, share with you my last NOR
sci of bread take it and eat IT. Dear i'tie
Prncesse After she had eaten the miserao'e
bit of bread which she had kept for herself she
went peacefully to sleep in my arms. spent
sad night beside her" A few days after Charles
signed his useless abdcation in favor OF Henri
v" The child and his sister were playing To-
gether and had made coach ont Of chairs ana
even a high scat on which the little Prince was
sitting when the Baron de Damas entered the
room and bowed low. Sire. he said, i am
charged by the King To tell you that your august
grandfather having failed to give happiness 10
France in spite of his heartfelt desire to DO 50.
has Just abdicaed, and 1t Is you. Monsgheur
who are to he King under the title or Henri V.
The little boy jumped down from his iofty seat
and exclaimed. What. Bon-papa who Is 50
good could not make France happy. Ana they
want to make me King In his place! he
shrugged his small shoulders and added NY
NJ lc Baron. what you say is an impossloiIlty.
And picking up rcins and whip he summoned
his sister to go on with their play the troubled
old grandfather who had laid down the crown
could not help smiling when he heard now BOT
deatIx" had taken the announcement. the child
snake fruth: he was never 10 be Henri W. in
more than name.
Some OF the most touching pages Of these me-
moirs are devoted to the Ouch sse d'Angouleme'
the unfortunate daughter Of Marie Antoinet,c
whose cruel experience rs a prisoner III the
Temple branded her soul with melancholy
which was never effaced in this world Nine dc
Gontaut's little Princcsse who very fond OF
her aunt coaxe1 from her one day during
their exile. some details Of that imprisonment
Little by lltt.e" says Nine de Gontaut the
Dauphincss gently told her that one Of the occu-
pa;.ons which helped her in her misery was
learning by heart the whole Of that excellent
book. Tho lay Of the Christian There she
SAID. I found resignation. comfort even
cho aftorward related that by way OF amuse-
wen, sha had made. ravcled out, ana thfn
worked over again incessantly a o'' ~ , 49,
work which her angelic aunt. Nine ElZape.' ~
had given her on parting from nor \ SH"'
or,,titv II wool was a treasure and Afforded her
diversion Of which she was eatly IN M en-
made over and over again she tCll " az -
nrncinus wool into = hundred different DESIGNS
one y her greatest trials came from neHt
L,ov,rng IN. hours at which her iaier "'uiu
visit her cell. Nine. Elizabeth hld Obtained
promise from the taller tina; ne would never
come alone AMI from the Daupniness that tte
guards should never find her in her S oen' , Snc
had 10 bee always up ana dressed "I'yn nv
',,',. bv dav or by night: FOR they added to
,her cruehcs by never having nHea an Go ncb TS
that she sometimes spent whole days ana hisn 1,S
I'm listening fearing. waiting. Tney ncNe' 40
find her in bed. but always sitting in a chan
beside II. , ,.,t1
near from her puson-cen the torture lnilc,eu
upon her unhappy bro'her. one gay. a,'on ,
otb,rs h,r mother heard Ills hruial guards say
:. him. "Sncak up loud. Capet. - thcy can H.tl
Won say. The Republic - eternal TO ms tle
unhspIy Young Prince replied iiiniy ana per
s,stently. Nothing is eternal but Ca ror ms
brave rrnly the jaers r.douhled tneir hi-'rea'-
MN, kicking hin in The chez with surh N'-
Irnrc that the blows could b. heard 10y the uh-
haupy mother. - ,..u
when n. had told IA these shocking DEALS
,,. Daunhlucss WAS forced - iraNr the carnage
ana walk on alone for great part % ms n9y.
When We sAw Ter again she was CAIN ana 49, I
sad subject AGAIN