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Show Eugenie Still a Handsome Woman. The ex-Empress Eugenie has retired to Farnsborough, wThere she is erecting on the grounds of her residence a superb mausoleum for Napoleon III., the Princess Prin-cess Imperial and herself. She lives in the same gloomy state which was kept up at Chiselhurst. She occupies her days in- reading, writing her memoirs, receiving such accredited visitors as may present themselves, and paying occasional visits to the tomb. She prefers walking to driving, and is always followed by a dog. She carries a cane, and one observer thinks that she uses it with as much regal grace as though it were a sceptre. She bears the weight of age and -sorrow with dignity, save for one personal detail the employment of cosmetics. With the native coquetry of a Spaniard who became a Parisienne, Eugenie cannot submit to the ravages of time on a complexion com-plexion once wholly admirable, and her countenance is a mask exquisitely done, but little adapted to the garish light of the day, and incongruous with her gray hair. |