[488] Scurˊ-ril-ous, grossly abusive.
[489] Ac-ceptˊ-ance, a bill or draft accepted by the party on whom it is drawn, who thus becomes liable for its payment at the time stated in the draft.
[490] In-dorsedˊ, a bill or note is indorsed by the party, to whom it is made payable, or who may be the holder of it, writing his name across the back of it.
[491] Bankˊ-rupt, a person who is unable to pay his debts.
[492] Au-dacˊ-i-ty, boldness; impudent presumption.
[493] De-fiˊ-cien-cy, want.
[494] De-linˊ-quent, one who fails in his duty.
LXVIII—QUEEN ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY.
MONTALEMBERT.
1. Generosity to the poor, particularly that exercised by princes, was one of the most remarkable features of the age in which she lived; but we perceive that, in her, charity did not proceed from rank, still less from the desire of acquiring praises or purely human gratitude, but from an interior and heavenly inspiration. From her cradle, she could not bear the sight of a poor person without feeling her heart pierced with grief, and now that her husband had granted her full liberty in all that concerned the honor of God and the good of her neighbor, she unreservedly abandoned herself to her natural inclination to solace[495] the suffering members of Christ.