"My children!
"Like a she-dog,[7] whose young were drowned, I cry for my babies—I, the Crown Princess of Saxony, who saved your family from dying out, a degenerate, depraved, demoralized, decadent race."
When I had said this and more I fell down and was seized by crying convulsions.
FOOTNOTES:
[7] Queens seem to like this unseemly comparison:
"Am I a kennel-dog in the estimation of the Bastard of England?" cried Mary of Scots, when Queen Elizabeth refused her safe-conduct through England upon her departure from France (Summer 1561).