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SCENE FROM THE "STOCKHOLM, FONTAINEBLEAU, ET ROME," OF ALEX. DUMAS.
Christina, Ex-Queen of Sweden.
Envoys.

christina.

        Good-morrow, gentlemen!
You seek me—I guess wherefore. Sweden's queen
How gladly I would be again, God knows
Whose hand withholds me from the throne. Yon sceptre,
So fair to look upon, must grace my tomb.
You come too late.