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and adherents massacred or
exiled, her son handed
over to a profligate and
debased ruffian, herself
in a dungeon and in
rags, deprived of the comforts--
the common necessities of life--
and there debarred of all
the sympathies that make
life desirable.

Marie Antoinette was a woman
who, in any station of life,
would have ben celebrated
for the excellence of her
womanly qualities, and, withal--
she was a peerless beauty.
her intellect and mental
acquirements were so superior
that were she living to-day,
she would acquire the
enviable distinction of being
called strong-minded--