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A STRIKING BIOGRAPHY.
(Continued from Page 10.)
his own home he found that he was "only the husband, not the master."
own private property by business- CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
liko methods.
Despite the distrust with which British statesmen regarded him because of his German sympa- thies, from sheer expacity, study. and taking pains he became, ns Grasille declared, "King to all intents and purposes," and this Moreover, the Queen though undeserved unpopularity was by nature extremely jealous pursued him to the end. and would imagine all sorts of things If he appeared to be get- Overwork and anxiety prema- ting on too well with a female turely aged and exhausted Prince member of the Court. She want-Albert. He never spared himself: ed him to be obedient, and he three years before the end came sometimes rabelled. There in a he famous story told about a closed] "was troubled with sleepless- door and a refund of admittance.| The tastes of the two differed.
Dancing was her favourite pas- time, and late hours her pleasure; he disliked the one and abhorred the other... He, wan a student of books, well educnted, and, what we should call in these days, a "highbrow"; her intellectual at-1 tainments were small and her love' of learning pegligible.
Пexx
and my stomach" The stooping gait, the increas- ing fleshiness. the thinning hair, the dull eyes all told their tale. Here was a man, not yet furty
whose nerves were perceptibly being strained. But he was something more than a man; he was also a martyr to the sacred enuse of duty.
As the shadows deepened, the fears of his rare friends grew, He was condemned to play chess Suddenly he fell ill at Windsor with her night after night in Castle. They moved him into a speakable tedium, when he would room which he recognised as that have, Ilked to be talking to clever in which George IV. and William people.
TV. had died.
Socially he was not a success,
Doctors Too Late"
Wus
In the eyes of the aristocracy, The complainant was typhoid. of England he was a foreignerbal his doctors, as Lord Claren- and a very dull one at that.
don said, were not even average was, too, a stickler for morals old women" and were lamentably
"This damnet morality will
l'almerston took incompetent. rain everything." Lord Mel-alarm and urged the Queen to call baume once remarked in a fit of
in other advice. This was done. irritation, while one of the pus-but in the opinion of the time, not sible candidates for a position in t
Too late. So the The Prince's private suite is saidheart-rending last hour came. to have "Thanked Henven character was too bad for the job?" He was seen to arrange his hair But Albert knew his duty.
He just as he used to do when he was himself never
Victoria dirted with
1 was, the well. Jasien.
[wrote to her journal, "as though The were preparing for another and Wages Cat from £45 to £18,
greater journeys He was barely Nor did his wisdom in stopping conscious, but at times he seemed the confusion and waste which to recognise his wife and once he arked the administration of the called by "Gutes Frauchen" and palaces endear him.
kissed her.
his
No one person was responsible In a final estimate the author for the cleanliness, bedev, and rodelades that the Prince, though security of the rooms and offices he was not the perfect saint which
and
dormitories, he was represented to be at one where fool nie.
lept ten or fine, did his duly bravely and twelve in each rest,
sinking, fearlessly, sacrificing himself at drinking, and other iniquities took every turn and striving for the place,
welfare of the Queen and his ariopted country.
146
The Prince eat down the forty housematts' wigss from apiece to $18; - Une queen
without jable to live
debt and he himself
Diseneli
WILA 11921 far wrong was when he said that "this German incurring Prince has governed England for *erama-21 years with a windegn and en-
lated a sum of considerably overforgy such as one of our Kings half-a-million pounds" out of his has ever shown."
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on Monday,
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6,800 19th June. S'hai, Kobo & Yoko 27th June. S'hai, Kobo & Yoko
2nd July. Amoy, Moji, Kobo & Osaka. 3rd Jvly. 8'hai, Moji, Kobo & Yoko
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9,114
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