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Eleanora Ulfeld.
no effect in softening the heart of Frederick III . She also wrote a work on celebrated Avomen , called " Preis der Heldinnen , " or , " The Praise of Heroines , " little thinking that she herself ivould be enrolled by after-ages in the foremost rank of heroines . Her cheerfulness is said to have been invariable ; ancl as a proof of itit is related that she composed a comedyivhich after her
, , release was acted in her own house . Still , with all this spirit and energy , and more , with all her patience , and that must have come from a higher source than even her own noble nature , * I take that invariable cheerfulness to have been a mere facon
de parler . We all know how Madame Roland , by her fearless demeanour , her lofty cotu-age , and unbending spirit , diffused fresh strength into all her companions in misfortune ; but her faithful servant revealed that , when alone , she would " stand weeping at the window , and then dry her eyes , and come and speak cheerfully
to you at the grating . " And so Eleanora did . Her jailers saw nothing but patience , cheerfulness , and courage ; but the walls of the prison and the silent hours of the night would have told another tale . Was she not far from all she loved—buried alive , as it were—shut out from aU life , except her own ? Her husband died in exile during her imprisonment . Whatever were his
faults , he was the husband of her youth ; how could she forget ¦ him ? That invariable cheerfulness , take my word for it , was stahied with many a tear . Her tyrant brother , Frederick III ., died also ( 1670 ) . Old recollections , ancl his very harshness to her afterwards , must have wrung tears from her eyes for him too . Sad , that the deep , heavy toll , which resounded through the city , should have brought hope to the captive in the dungeon ,
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Eleanora Ulfeld.
no effect in softening the heart of Frederick III . She also wrote a work on celebrated Avomen , called " Preis der Heldinnen , " or , " The Praise of Heroines , " little thinking that she herself ivould be enrolled by after-ages in the foremost rank of heroines . Her cheerfulness is said to have been invariable ; ancl as a proof of itit is related that she composed a comedyivhich after her
, , release was acted in her own house . Still , with all this spirit and energy , and more , with all her patience , and that must have come from a higher source than even her own noble nature , * I take that invariable cheerfulness to have been a mere facon
de parler . We all know how Madame Roland , by her fearless demeanour , her lofty cotu-age , and unbending spirit , diffused fresh strength into all her companions in misfortune ; but her faithful servant revealed that , when alone , she would " stand weeping at the window , and then dry her eyes , and come and speak cheerfully
to you at the grating . " And so Eleanora did . Her jailers saw nothing but patience , cheerfulness , and courage ; but the walls of the prison and the silent hours of the night would have told another tale . Was she not far from all she loved—buried alive , as it were—shut out from aU life , except her own ? Her husband died in exile during her imprisonment . Whatever were his
faults , he was the husband of her youth ; how could she forget ¦ him ? That invariable cheerfulness , take my word for it , was stahied with many a tear . Her tyrant brother , Frederick III ., died also ( 1670 ) . Old recollections , ancl his very harshness to her afterwards , must have wrung tears from her eyes for him too . Sad , that the deep , heavy toll , which resounded through the city , should have brought hope to the captive in the dungeon ,