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Show All affectation is the attempt of poverty pov-erty to appear rich. Man proposes and woman decides. a- ..ever say of anything, "I have lost it." but. "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been given back. Is your estate taken away? Well, and is rot that likewise given back? "But he who took it away is a bad man." What is it to you hy whose hands he who gave it has demanded de-manded it back again? While he allows al-lows you to possess it, take care of it. but as of something not your own, as travelers do of an in. Epictetus. There is only one member of any royal roy-al family in Europe who is in a convent, con-vent, and who has actually taken the full vows of a nun. The lady in question ques-tion is the widow of that Don Miguel of Brazil, who ruled for several years over Portugal as its king, being eventually deposed and driven into exile in order to make way for his niece. Queen Maria Ma-ria Delia Gloria, the grandmother of the present king. The royal nun is the superior su-perior of a convent of Benedictine nuns in the Isle of Wight. |