The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

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146 THE YOUNG LADY's COUNSELLOR.
olack cloud over her palace; it rose formidable niA
furious as the dashing wave around her husband's
throne.
She was his idol, and had obtained irresistible
as -endcncy over his mind. Alarmed at the danger,
anxious for her husband's
honor, eager to maintain
the ancient monaichy, she undertook the perilous
task of o-overniniT and subduing the revolution.
But, alas I every step she took only increased its
fury, and added to its power. Instead of appealing
to the confidence of the people,
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thus fanning the
latent sparks of loyalty to a fl? ne by manifestations
of real regard for their interests, she contrived to
appear as the personal enemy of the revolution, and
thereby brought down defeat
and death upon herself
and family, as the
reader very well knows.
Queen Esther, also, was called to behold a terrible
destruction menacing herself and her entire nation.
The uplifted axe, in the irresistible hand of potent
despotism, gleamed horribly as it swept the air with
intent to fall on the neck of a doomed nation. The
dark decree for Jlewish extermination, signed by the
unalterable seal of Persian majesty, and commii.cd