Year: 1878




Spain.


No man ever had a more splen-
did chance Her wish was law in
the Peninsula, his wish was law
with her. The power of miracle
was offered to him; he might have
made the government honest, or
taught the people to work. But
nothing of the kind ever came into
his head. For HIM apparently the
CHIEF effect of the marriage On his
fortunes was that it improved the
quality of his cigarettee. Every
body laughed at him with one ex-
ception-his- wife. A clod for
everybody else, he was still hero
for her, The case was not alto
gethcr without precedent. Accor-
ding to the poets, certain queen
consort, contemporary with These
us, bad once loved in much the
same way. Only Titania's illusion
lasted barely a night, and Christi
mas illusion lasted a life time
Her passion transformed AL the
defects of Mnnoz into qualities
His heaviness was sincerity and
simplcness of nature, hi. blnntness
of the barraek room was the hon
cstv of second infant Washington
who could not lie. He certainly
never went ont of his way to try to
seem other than he was; and per
haps that was her best excuse for
loving him. He was always
CHI istopher Sly in the Dukes
chamber, dazed and more than
half suspectiug that it was all
dream, but thinking it best to keep
his own counsel while wal ing for
developments. She advanced his
fortunes in every way. and he was
AS passive as clay in the hands OF
the potter. He went on smoking
cigarettes. She made him gran
dee Of the Observation-Disclosures
She gave him the golden fleece
cigarettes again. Aud by and by
Louis Philippe created him Duke
of Montmorot (Christina had al
ready made him Duke of Rianza-
res) and decorated him with the
Grand Gross of the Legion of
Honor. This was to mark the citi.
zen Kings gratitude for Christmas
plancy to French views on the
question of the Spanish marriages.
He wanted her to give one of her
daughters (by the first husbapd) TO
his son, and another to an idiot,
and she did both--with what results
for Spain, and for Isabella, who
had the idiot to her share, We all
know. He influenced her through
her love for Rianzarcs, paying ASST
dinus court to that puzzled peasant
at time when the other crowned
heads of Europe would not hear the
mention of his name. Christina
could refuse him nothing after that.
The Dnkcdom of Montmorot came
after the settlement of the Spanish
marriages, and Christina no doubt
thought she was amply paid. This
foreign recognition of her husband
was another step in his progress to


wards those very highest fortunes
for which she destined him. He
was not to die mere noble. She
supplicatcd him to let himself be
made King OF EouGor, and she was
ready to shed the best blood of Spain
to reconqner that South American
! province for the sake OF putting
her pet npon throne. The offer
bored him, and to show how power


fully he was affected by his partner


project of ambition it may be stated


that he left off smoking cigarettes


She never broached the subject


again. That momentary spell Of


distatc for his tobacco probably


saved the lives of 81 hundred thous-


and men.


His sister, the laundress, O


course struck work on her brother.


elevation and was provided for


He never turned his back on hei


or her family and Unit! long atte


he became Duke of Rianzarcs anc


grandee of Spain he used to go t
see her every week. His visits
, however, gradually became less ire
, dutht as she formed the habit O
, unconsciously seconding the Queer
: in importuning him with scheme
. of aggrandizemcnt. Like the wifi
OF the wealthy cit in Pope's satire
her motto of advice to him wa
5 olive like YOURSELF" which, in truth
:. meal.t ''live like somebody else VIII
has no such sense of the value of
quiet life" His notion of livin
like himself was to know when h
was we'll off !; and SO, gradually
:, GOODNESS sprang up between HIM an
> the cx-laundrcss on the ground {
:. this difference OF view. lie foun
. AL his most abiding satisfaction
: the society of few Of his old com
,r rades, who, since he could not con
4 down to their level, were promote