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ods of teaching her described—Visited by Charles Dickens—Her character—Incident of the handkerchief—Joins the Baptist church—She relates her baptism—Her present condition—One of her poems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| XIX. THE WIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON IN HER WORKROOM AT MOUNT VERNON. | ||
The workroom described—Making garments for the slaves—Mrs. Washington always knitting—Her training of servants—Her husband's early condition—Her wealth—The courtship and marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| XX. MADAME DE STAEL AND NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. | ||
The master of Europe afraid of a woman—His reasons—Character of the man as shown in his bulletins—Reasons for her detestation of him—His treatment of Prussia—His insolence to the conquered—He banishes Madame de Stael—Forbids the publication of her Germany—Some offensive passages—Her second marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| XXI. THE WIFE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. | ||
A forced marriage—An incongruous couple—Her appearance and character—Abandoned by the king—His correspondence with her—The king's liberality to her—Her religious tracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| XXII. THE FLIGHT OF EUGÉNIE. | ||
| Her parentage—Her childhood in Madrid—Known there by Washington Irving—Her extraordinary beauty as a young lady—Marriage to Louis Napoleon—Gift from the city of Paris—Her expensive dresses—The clothes mania spreads through the world—Twenty thousand dollars a month for pin-money—Visit to Queen Victoria—Opens the Suez Canal—The Defeat at Sedan—Terror in the palace—Prepares for flight— | ||
