The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

136 THE VOUNG lady's COUNSELLOR
conversation is as charmi/ig as her counlijnjnce
Hence, she is not only the queen, but the star, of the
magnificent court ovei which she presides. Her
husband idolizes her.
Her people welcome her presence
with enthusiastic plaudits, that proclaim the
intensity of their admiration.
Turn now to another and sadder portrait. See,
standing" before a legal tribunal, a woman clad in
coarse rags. Her tail form is slightly bowed, yet
it betrays an air of dignity. Her eyes are dim with
sorrow, but at times are lighted with a few brilliant
rays. Beneath the eyelids is a black circle, graved
by grief and woe. Her face is pallid, and her long
hair, flowing down upon her neck, is white with
anguish. All eyes are turned upon her, not in love
or pity, but in curiosity, in hate, or in triumph.
Do you demand the name of these ladies? Alas!
both these pictures represent one celebrated woman
Marie Antoinette ! In the first, she is newly
ari.ved from Austria, and recently n^edded to King
Louis ; in the second, she is deposed from her
throne, and placed at the bar of a remorseless revolu-