COMMENTATOR: “There was only one older daughter, Helen, Princess of Thurn and Taxis.”
AUTHOR: “She hunted and shot with her brothers.”
COMMENTATOR: “The Empress never took a gun in her hand—never touched one.”
AUTHOR: “All her love became centred upon little Archduchess Gisela, who had made her appearance in the world in 1856.”
COMMENTATOR: “She never looked at the baby, and Archduchess Sophia took care of it.”
AUTHOR: “A very unpalatable adventure of which her husband was the hero ... broke the last restraint upon her indignation, and, without informing anybody of her intentions, she hurriedly left the imperial palace of Vienna for Trieste, and set sail for the Ionian Islands on board her yacht, fully resolved never to allow her husband to approach her or to speak to her again.”
COMMENTATOR: “She had no yacht of her own at that time, and travelled with the consent of the Emperor. Her brother accompanied her to Trieste.”