Q4- How many wives did King Henry VII have? Q3- What is the title of an Indian Prince Q2- True or False: Victoria Day is always celebrated on May 23rd in Canada Q1- How old was Queen Victoria when she took the throne? That scene came but too soon.And Happy Belated or. It required a brutal scene to open her mind to the truth, and to bring her thoughts back to the horrible reality of her situation. Henrietta was too busy watching her stepmother to notice how eagerly she herself was examined, what glances they cast at her, and how careful the married ladies, as well as the young girls, were to leave her alone. The count and his young wife had probably let it be known that they would be at home that evening and soon a number of visitors came in, some of them old friends of the family, but the great majority intimates from Circus Street. Elgin, and the unhappy father found themselves soon once more alone with poor Henrietta, who was still unconscious. She is still in the same condition, was the answer. At last, toward midnight, Sir Thorn saw the young countess come out of Henrietta��s room. Nor could Count Ville-Handry suppress his growing anxiety as he saw them consulting in the recess of one of the windows, discussing more energetic means to be employed. They had exhausted all the usual remedies for such cases, and began, evidently, to be not a little surprised at the persistency of the symptoms. In the meantime two physicians had arrived, but without obtaining any better results than the countess and her friends. If it had not been for our dear Sarah, who is goodness itself, they would have sent her to a house of correction. On the day of her father��s marriage she ran away with somebody, by the aid of a servant, who has since been dismissed and they had to get the police to help them bring her back. Don��t you know what kind of a woman the count��s daughter is? It is incredible, and almost too scandalous. I would not bring her here for the world. Instinctively Henrietta listened.Īt last, when, all of a sudden, the horrid reality broke upon her mind, she threw herself back, and cried out,�� They were apparently friends of the young countess, for she did not know them, and one of them had a strong foreign accent. Finding that this fainting-fit lasted too long, and fearing perhaps a fatal termination, a painful scene, and tears, they slyly slipped out, one by one, and escaped.Īnd he was stretching out his hand to pull the bell, when Sir Thorn stopped him, saying in a voice of deep emotion,��Īs the visitors increased, the conversation had ceased to be general, and groups had formed so that two ladies came to sit down close by Henrietta. This acted as a signal for the guests to scatter at once. Immediately the countess and the other ladies crowded around the fainting girl, rubbing the palms of her hands, moistening her temples with aromatic vinegar and cologne, and holding bottles of salts persistently to her nostrils.

Raising Henrietta with a powerful arm, he laid her on a sofa, not forgetting to slip a cushion under her head. We ought not to leave her here, said Countess Sarah she will be better in her bed. She looked upon him in utter despair, and then said in a low voice,��Ĭome, child. Then the countess said, speaking very loud, so as to be heard by the servants,��

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