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Eleanora Ulfeld.
and that captive a sister . But it was a hope doomed to be deceived . Sophia Amelia ' s hatred , and power for evil , remained undiminished during the reign of her son . She appears to have been one of those persons whose very wickedness wins them power ; and no wonder , considering loho is the " Prince of this world . " Frederick III . was gone to answer for his own deeds
, among which , this treatment of an innocent sister must have formed a fearful item ; but , during his lifetime , just think what it must have been to have had such a wife—a Mephistopheles in petticoats—always at one ' s elbow ! It gars me grew .
The new king , Christiern V ., had a young wife , with whom I have not the honour of being much acquainted ; but this I know , that she exerted herself in favour of the poor captive , whom she had never seen : but the beneficent fairy was forced to succumb to the malignant one . La Bruyere says— "Un homme aime son gendre , aime sa bru ; une femme aime son gendre
et n'aime point sa bru ; " and Sophia Amelia Carabosse was the very woman to exemplify this maxim . Probably , the young queen , who had stepped into her former place , was little less obnoxious in her eyes than her hapless sister-in-law ; and it requires all one's recollection of the unbounded influence of a motherof the effect of earlprejudicesand of the difficulty
, y , with which truth finds access to a sovereign ' s ear , to enable one to find any excuse for Christiern V . for being led by his mother to do wrong , instead of by his wife to do right . " Why did he not listen to his wife ? " asks a young lady reader . All ! that is just the difficulty . Why do not men always listen to their wives ?
We can fancy the zeal which opposition would lend to compassion—how all the ladies of the young queen would be , to a woman , on the side of Eleanora—how her beauty and fascinations , which could no longer rival theirs , would be dwelt upon , ancl her sufferings lamented over—how Queen Charlotte Amelia would listen to all the tales they could bring her of the cruelty ,
jealousy , envy , and ugliness of her august mother-in-law , and how she would feel it her duty to check the conversation , as " not proper , " ^ just when the fair narrator had nothing more to tell . Even his Majesty was pouted at , behind his back ; and deservedly so , say we . But that Queen Charlotte's zeal was far from being prompted chieflbopposition to her Carabosse
y y mother-in-law is shown by the fact , that although she failed in procuring Eleanora ' s release so long as the queen-dowager lived , yet she did all that she could . She had the prison windoiv made larger , and a pipe was put to the stove . Now , when people Avish to do a good deed from bad motives ,
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Eleanora Ulfeld.
and that captive a sister . But it was a hope doomed to be deceived . Sophia Amelia ' s hatred , and power for evil , remained undiminished during the reign of her son . She appears to have been one of those persons whose very wickedness wins them power ; and no wonder , considering loho is the " Prince of this world . " Frederick III . was gone to answer for his own deeds
, among which , this treatment of an innocent sister must have formed a fearful item ; but , during his lifetime , just think what it must have been to have had such a wife—a Mephistopheles in petticoats—always at one ' s elbow ! It gars me grew .
The new king , Christiern V ., had a young wife , with whom I have not the honour of being much acquainted ; but this I know , that she exerted herself in favour of the poor captive , whom she had never seen : but the beneficent fairy was forced to succumb to the malignant one . La Bruyere says— "Un homme aime son gendre , aime sa bru ; une femme aime son gendre
et n'aime point sa bru ; " and Sophia Amelia Carabosse was the very woman to exemplify this maxim . Probably , the young queen , who had stepped into her former place , was little less obnoxious in her eyes than her hapless sister-in-law ; and it requires all one's recollection of the unbounded influence of a motherof the effect of earlprejudicesand of the difficulty
, y , with which truth finds access to a sovereign ' s ear , to enable one to find any excuse for Christiern V . for being led by his mother to do wrong , instead of by his wife to do right . " Why did he not listen to his wife ? " asks a young lady reader . All ! that is just the difficulty . Why do not men always listen to their wives ?
We can fancy the zeal which opposition would lend to compassion—how all the ladies of the young queen would be , to a woman , on the side of Eleanora—how her beauty and fascinations , which could no longer rival theirs , would be dwelt upon , ancl her sufferings lamented over—how Queen Charlotte Amelia would listen to all the tales they could bring her of the cruelty ,
jealousy , envy , and ugliness of her august mother-in-law , and how she would feel it her duty to check the conversation , as " not proper , " ^ just when the fair narrator had nothing more to tell . Even his Majesty was pouted at , behind his back ; and deservedly so , say we . But that Queen Charlotte's zeal was far from being prompted chieflbopposition to her Carabosse
y y mother-in-law is shown by the fact , that although she failed in procuring Eleanora ' s release so long as the queen-dowager lived , yet she did all that she could . She had the prison windoiv made larger , and a pipe was put to the stove . Now , when people Avish to do a good deed from bad motives ,