t h

    tern in his

    in and knelt by , MI REINA!  MI

    REINA! and sometimes breaking tiquette t in

    Spain governs every separate action of life, and sets limits even

    to tc the pale jewelled hands

    in a ry to wake by he

    cold painted face.

    to-day o see  at the

    Castle of Fontainebleau, een years of age, and

    sill younger.  trot

    occasion by the French King and

    all t, and urned to th him

    a little ringlet of yellow wo childish

    lips bending doo kiss epped into his carriage.

    Later on ily performed at Burgos, a

    small toier betries, and the grand

    public entry into Madrid omary celebration of high

    mass at tochan usually solemn

    AUtO-DA-FE, in  whom

    o

    be burned.

    Certainly o t, of

    ry, t he

    empire of tted o be

    out of ; for ten, or seemed to have

    forgotten, all grave affairs of State; and,  terrible

    blindness t passion brings upon its servants, o

    notice t te ceremonies by o please

    aggravate trange malady from which she suffered.

    ime, like one bereft of reason.

    Indeed, t but t ed

    and retired to t trappist monastery at Granada, of which he

    itular Prior,  been afraid to leave the

    little Infanta at ty, even in

    Spain, orious, and wed by many of having

    caused t

    ed to ing le

    in Aragon.  Even after tion of three years of public

    mourning t