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Eleanora Ulfeld.
vanity , ostentation , or the spirit of opposition , they are very apt to say , " If I cannot get it done as I Avish , I shall give it up ; it's not my fault ;"—being inwardly greatly pleased at heaping another fault on their adversary ' s head . So did not Charlotte Amelia ; neither did she relax in her efforts : for no sooner did Sophia Amelia depart this life—a good riddancethinks 1 though
, , it may not be proper to say so—fifteen years after the death of her husband , than the long-looked-for day of freedom came to Eleanora . The queen-dowager ( what a difference there is in queen-doAvagers !) died Feb . 20 th , 1685 , and the Countess Eleanora left her gloomy prison May 19 th of the same year , — Avhereat I am ready to jump for joy . At which event , pray ?
Oh , at either , or both . It was noAV recognised by aU that Eleanora never had had the smallest share in her husband's designs . The Castle of Mariboe was given to her , with an income of fifteen hundred dollars a year ; and the sentence of banishment against her children was repealed . This is what is commonly called "tardy justice , "
—a thing that is oftentimes of far more importance for the doer ' s sake than for him to whom it is done ; for the power of man to injure is far beyond his powers of making reparation . In this world , injustice is often as fixed as Fate . Eleanora came out of prison an aged woman , of sixty-four . Who could give her back two-and-twenty years of her life ? Her husband had died ,
and she was not by him . Her children had grown up , ancl married , and suffered , deprived of a mother ' s care and a mother ' s love ; and she of the deep happiness of bestowing both . What could compensate her for the loss of all the endearing associations that would have bound her to the hearts of her own offspring ? That youth would not have been so
wild—this daughter would have made a happier choice—that little one ' s life might have been saved—had a mother ' s eye watched over them . Her eldest daughter—the one who most resembled herself—had married a gentleman of Flanders , named De Cassette , was now a widow , and took up her abode under her mother ' s roof during the thirteen years which formed the
quiet evening ofthe Countess Eleanora ' s checkeredlife . Eleanora Ulfeld breathed her last earthly sigh in 1698 , at the age of seventy-seven .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Eleanora Ulfeld.
vanity , ostentation , or the spirit of opposition , they are very apt to say , " If I cannot get it done as I Avish , I shall give it up ; it's not my fault ;"—being inwardly greatly pleased at heaping another fault on their adversary ' s head . So did not Charlotte Amelia ; neither did she relax in her efforts : for no sooner did Sophia Amelia depart this life—a good riddancethinks 1 though
, , it may not be proper to say so—fifteen years after the death of her husband , than the long-looked-for day of freedom came to Eleanora . The queen-dowager ( what a difference there is in queen-doAvagers !) died Feb . 20 th , 1685 , and the Countess Eleanora left her gloomy prison May 19 th of the same year , — Avhereat I am ready to jump for joy . At which event , pray ?
Oh , at either , or both . It was noAV recognised by aU that Eleanora never had had the smallest share in her husband's designs . The Castle of Mariboe was given to her , with an income of fifteen hundred dollars a year ; and the sentence of banishment against her children was repealed . This is what is commonly called "tardy justice , "
—a thing that is oftentimes of far more importance for the doer ' s sake than for him to whom it is done ; for the power of man to injure is far beyond his powers of making reparation . In this world , injustice is often as fixed as Fate . Eleanora came out of prison an aged woman , of sixty-four . Who could give her back two-and-twenty years of her life ? Her husband had died ,
and she was not by him . Her children had grown up , ancl married , and suffered , deprived of a mother ' s care and a mother ' s love ; and she of the deep happiness of bestowing both . What could compensate her for the loss of all the endearing associations that would have bound her to the hearts of her own offspring ? That youth would not have been so
wild—this daughter would have made a happier choice—that little one ' s life might have been saved—had a mother ' s eye watched over them . Her eldest daughter—the one who most resembled herself—had married a gentleman of Flanders , named De Cassette , was now a widow , and took up her abode under her mother ' s roof during the thirteen years which formed the
quiet evening ofthe Countess Eleanora ' s checkeredlife . Eleanora Ulfeld breathed her last earthly sigh in 1698 , at the age of seventy-seven .