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Show ViOTOitiA and IIkh Love. Referring Refer-ring to the mausoleum erected at Windsor Wind-sor In Ihe memory ofthe l'rince Consort, Con-sort, by his wife, at a cost of U0,OU0, a corre-pnndent says: Each day Queen Victoria visits this place alone. Near the tomb is placed a largo, deep basket, lilled with wreaths of beautiful flowers. At hand is a small, round table, on which are a Bible and a prayer book. From these he reads and prays fervently, kneeling the while. Then she rises, and taking tak-ing the wreaths, advances toward the sarcophagus, in the lid of which a small sheet of plate glass is inserted, through which she can see the face and form of the departed. But the efforts of the embaluier have not been thoroughly successful, and the features that were so beautil'ul in life are, in death, marred by discoloration. Still it is his face, shrunken and pallid though it he. Again she prays, thinking ofthe years of happiness she lived with him long passed away, but never to be forgotten. She stands gazing there till she can gaze no more, with tears. Gently she places the forget-me-nots upon the marble coffin, takes one last lingering look with her dim eyes, and slowly retires, while from above the bell tolls out a melancholy requiem for the idolized idol-ized dead. Ex. |
