Year: 1878

derstood, 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 bis first
interview with Christina that was
his only failure of the kind. He
looked as good grandee as the
best of them, thanks to his soldlerly
bearing and his handsome face; and,
as the caste does not slime by its
intelligence or education, his blunt
answers were rs good as his fellow
mobiles bon mots. He bore his hon
ors somewhat gruffiy /; and for
man who has not been born to such
things perhaps that is the only way
of bearing them we'll. His curtness
was easily and perhaps not mac
cnrtely taken for the reserve of
force, For indispensable verbal
civilities and such other convention
alities 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.


ALI this time Christina was gov
erning Spain well or i'll, and more
often very i'll. Her great object
was to secure the succession TO her
daughter Isabella, with real power
for herself as Regent for the dead.
To this end, after successfully
wheedling her first husband in fa-
vor of the revocation OF the law
against female hcirship to the
throne, she proceeded to try the
same experiment with the nation on
larger scale. The Liberals shed
their blood for her in a long and
bitter civil war against the perhaps
better claim of the heir male, as
represented by the head of the Car
list faction. And when they had
served her turn she handed them
and the whole nation over to sue
cession of the most arbitrary Minis.
tiers ever known in modern times.
There was but one remedy-anoth-
er civil war, and she had to run for
her life. Isabella, then but nine
years old, was left behind as a
warlning-pan under the tutelage of
Espartero. Rianzares, of course,
went with his wife to France
Louis Philippe at first received
him rather coolly, bnt remembering
that the exiled Queen had still a
royal daughter to marry, and that
tire way TO her heart vast through
the show of respect for her peasant
hus band, he soon altered his &C.
meanor. 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 Isabclla's coming of age
by about year. The child OF
thirteen Thus officially declared to


be woman, there was no gainsay-


ing her wish to have her mother
once more by her side, and Chris


tina came hack, in reality, though
not in name, to exercise all her old
power. Her first act was to obtain


the public ratification of her mar


riage with Rianzares and to legiti--


mize their children-one of them


known to-day as the Princess del


Drago, another rs the Marchioness


OF Campo-Sagrado.


Her second essay in government
; lasted for elven years-eleven years


of trial for her and for the people,
She was a child in politics, or, was


going TO say, what was jdst as bad, {


woman, only l remember there have


been to many exceptions of high femi
!, nine competence in affairs to make il


possible for them to prove my rule
: She was without the most elementry
hotions Of the tendencies of her time


She wanted to govern a nation like
nusery, and her only remedy for popu


lar disatfection was more rod. A
length she had to be driven out onc'


more, and this time for good as ruler
| though she now and then revisite,
Spain as u tourist. The palace wa
; almost as tired of her as the country
2 for there had been frequent pickering
/, in the rcyal family through IsabelP
want of respect for her step.tather.-


When Isabella was but qucch sh
> had to speak of Papa kiaL xares
: with every show of dutiful respect
when she became both queen and
: woman she could venture to give tn
Z words an infection of disdaln ths
a turned them into d nickname. Sh
d resented the mesdllidnce and Gre
# great comfort from the reflection Tbs
d she would never commit herself
n that way. IL was rather shocking


remark the frankhess with which I'll
: mother subsequently talked of IL
= = other ways in which the daughter ha
- done worse and to see her with Il
: impartiality of a judge marking shad'
20 of blame among the favorites who b;
j, brought contempt on the royal nam
lo sSFhat DHyr Mariori. He was the on