The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-30

She loved play, fun and frolic too much
to be a queen Of serious people like the
Scots. Yet she could be all that was de-
nsrded Of a good wife when her hus-
band, Lord Of Darnley, became i'll. 1T
was beautiful to see her, writes Mr. Hew-
lett, with rank and kingship cast aside,
more dignified by her little private for
tune, more queen for her enclosed realm.
For now she swayed a sickroom and was
absolute there let seditious murmurings
and alarms toss their pixies beyond the
border. Yet there was John Knox s
haracterization, 'FIoneypot." 'There you
ness-With sharp aftertaste. for all that,
to prick the tongue and set it long,
ing" says Mr.. Hewlett And all that
showed itself in her first reception
of Darnley, and again in her rela-
tions with that beast Boutwell,, whose food
was the blood of women and their tears. y
Des-Essars is quoted by Mr.. Hewlett thus,
with regard to the queens lavishments
upon the british lord:
She stripped herself bare of every grace of
mind, spirit and person, and strewed it in his
way, heaping one upon another until he seemed
to be wad1ng knee deep in her charms. Nay,
but he Wallowed in them like brute-beast--
These glimpses at the queens chara cter
thru Mr.. Hewlett's book let the reader see
the gradual decentralization of chara cter
which reaches a climax in the queen S
marriage to Boutwell,, one of the chief
piotters against Lord Darnley's life. with
in three months after Darnley's death.
% ~ A Tragic Scene.
One night after she had retired she told
her faithful maid. Sempill, of her intention
to marry Boutwell,, who had divorced his
wife ard whose relations with other WON
en- were notorious. Sempill had ever
guarded the queen against her own fol-
Mr foil hn ~,
these words:
sempill prepared or not. started back, on fire
you'll never do it. You'll never dare to
do it,
y shall dare to do it, If dare avouch it,
sempill hid her face. II cannot see it done.
| cannot know of it, II am do my best to
bean honest woman. These things be far
Savior, believe he will pardon you and me
all our sins of the hot blood. But not of the
cold blood-not of the dry. y She changed sud
an harlot,'' she said.
The queen turned over in her bed and faced
the wall.
sempill went down on her knees. ST con
jure you'll beseech you! Madam, I implore
you! BY your mothers bliss and your fathers
crown imperial, by the great calling of your
and all, BY the sorrows Of Our Iadythe o swords S
in her heart--the tears that she shed; by her
swooning at the cross-1 implore, 1 implore!--
make not all the woes to be In vain. BY your
young child conjure you-by my own upon
earth and the other in my womb-by all calm
and innocent things-oh, put it from you suffer
all things.even DEATH even death!'
She did not stir nor utter a sound she lay
like log. Mary Selnpill, with a sob that shook
her to pieces. and gesture of drowning hands,
went out of the room and at midnight left the
palace. Those two, who had been lovers once
and friends always, never met again in this
world.
And that is only a very small portion
of 1.-THE Six Years Tragedy that is par
tally recorded in t"The Queens QUAR-. .
and reveals to us, perhaps as no other
book has, the character of a woman whose
heart-shal1 we say out of charity?-led
her SO often into such woeful errors.
AUGUST.
Presto! behold! this time indeed
Old World his vision doubted,
AS from his Hat Time took seed
Which, as they watched it, sprouted
leay and bran dal,or