Three Sketches, by Edward L. Hopkins, are quiet Sunday scenes expressed on the pianoforte.
T. H. Barnett.
Saltarello in A minor. By R. J. Thompson.—A bright little movement for players of moderate capacity and ready fingers.
A DAUGHTER OF SORROWS.
CHAPTER IV.
LAST DAYS.
t might have seemed now that Marie Thérèse of France had endured enough of sorrow, and that her days might be allowed to flow on evenly—not, indeed, joyfully, but in a calm content. For a year or two it seemed as if this would be the case, but there were still other storms to be encountered before the life history was to be complete.
Five years after the second Restoration the Duc de Berri was assassinated at the Opéra. The Duchess of Angoulême was one of those immediately summoned to the ante-room of the Opera House, where her brother-in-law lay dying. Her husband, fearing some danger, would have restrained her from accompanying him, but she felt her place was there. “What,” exclaims Châteaubriand, “were dangers to her, who was accustomed to look revolution in the face!” Herself overcome with grief, she paid a noble tribute to the fortitude of the Duchesse de Berri. “She is sublime,” she said more than once; and, bending over the dying man, she said, “Courage, brother; and if God calls you hence, ask my father there to pray for France and for us.”
When, six months after his father’s death, the only son of the Duc and Duchesse de Berri was born, it was the Duchess of Angoulême, to whom the blessing of children had been denied, who showed the infant to the people assembled before the palace windows with every sign of joy and delight.