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"It is very sad," answered George. "But he had a happy life, I don't doubt, up to to " "What does that matter now? It is all a horrible farce. To begin so fair and lovely, and end so stormy and cold and miserable!" George did not like to say what he thought, namely, that it was Leopold's own doing.
No, no! This she felt that she could not endure not another half-hour of this awful, death-dealing suspense. Anything would be better than that death at Leopold's hands a quick gasp, a final agony yes! That would be briefer and better and perhaps Leo's heart would misgive him perhaps .
George could give account of the whole matter: religion invariably excited the imagination and weakened the conscience; witness the innumerable tales concerning Jesus invented in the first of the Christian centuries, and about this and that saint in those that followed! Helen's experience in Leopold's case had certainly been different, but the other fact remained.
After King Leopold's death, accident brought me knowledge of astounding facts of his last days which were shortly to be exposed in Court of the measure of his unnatural hatred of his children; of his schemes to deprive them of their rightful inheritance; of his relations with certain of his favourites and his death-bed marriage to one of them; of the circumstances attending the surgical operation which immediately preceded the extinction of his life; of the burning of endless documents of doubtful credit during the night before the knife was used; of the intrigues of women of questionable character over the dying man's body to share the ill-got gold he had earned in the Congo, and finally of his end, not in his palace, but in a little hidden chalet, alone save for one scheming woman and one calculating priest.
If they were all boys of Leopold's age it would be the same as it is at school; but having the younger ones here makes it more as it is at home." Should it not be the plan and purpose of a children's room to make every boy and girl feel at home there from the moment of signing an application blank? Forms of application blanks and the manner of registration differ in nearly every library.
It is a place of pilgrimage to patriotic Prussians, ever since Friedrich Wilhelm's exploit there. The matter went thus: Friedrich Wilhelm was fighting, far south in Alsace, on Kaiser Leopold's side, in the Louis-Fourteenth War; that second one, which ended in the treaty of Nimwegen.
'And pray what is the idea?'he asked. 'Neither more nor less, I answered, 'than that he is a murderer! 'God bless me! he cried, somewhat to my alarm, for I had been making all this preamble to prejudice the old gentleman in the right direction, lest afterwards Leopold's plausibility might be too much for him.
The President had nothing to reply to this save that he had never approved of Leopold's expedition, and that when Spaniards make mistakes they always had recourse to their servants to repair their faults. He had accepted this mission inconsiderately, he said, inspired by a hope to conjure the rising storms mingled with fears as to the result which were now justified.
Who can tell what the bounty of a God like Jesus may be!" A vision arose before the mind's eye of the curate: Emmeline kneeling for Leopold's forgiveness; but he wisely held his peace. The comforter of the sinner must come from the forgiveness of God, not from the favourable judgment of man mitigating the harshness of his judgment of himself.
The nurse searched for herself, so far as she could do so without exciting the suspicions of the hotel people; but she was no more successful than her confidant in the secret. If the diary was in the house, it could not be found. The structure of the chimney, in which the flue of the fireplace was built, was carefully examined; and Leopold's conclusion seemed to be fully verified.
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