A Visitor for the Queen.

Manawatu Herald, 13 September 1892, Page 2

A Visitor for the Queen.

We narrated in a late issue how a negro widow named Martha AngeRix desired to see the Queen.' This is ihow she_diid it >r#* « :_>.cfjs^ady weM tbWipdi^r in £ chte^: jpf the Liberian Mini, ler, /ajMiyhe* account of what took .place, as related to the inevitable interyisway tcpe '*p follows .:,—•! v ■■:'..'.' :- i 1 " At Windsor, two carriages fetched us af; the station, and, at four o'clock: Queen Victoria came and saw me. It ,was: in a golden room ; [everything Ysj3| ; £0 ; - .beautiful, and there were ■ pictures of all the kings and .queens; and I did, not know where to look , to, see it all. I never heard QueenVictoria come in , but . -aM ■•> at/ once tbey told, ,rae she was. there,, and they ,weis ,;a|l ...coining ('tpiwards.i us. _;&■- --catjnp't, t^i/ypu ,what Qween . yiotoarias . . said to me; gift sgep,ks so softly, btt^. she smiled, and her voice was s wee*, and she's'hppkba'hds with me, only with ineV'' 'They had told me she never shook hands withyfebple";. no queens did Y'ilie -mtobi £hakes' f fiands withDr Blyden, though he is the Liberian „ buJLQneeaVicJ.oria realljhs^cgtil^ir^ fa mci? \ fSho browtf* velvety "eyes, "so inefrs and lowly otherwise, .and, just , a little weary at- t_b._i* ehd -of ' the 4c_dg working day of life, shone and sparkled with delight. " Who was with the Queen, Mrs. Rjcks ? r r^id I he&r-tylrs , s Roberts say the Prlhc. of WfyWfe'' was with her ? '— " Who? 'the young man ? -Yes,, he wag. there. I don't knqfai.wj.ich oif ther three gentlemen he was,' but they all looked verypleased, and smiled. But I saw the whole Royal Family ; seven, I think, there were. lhe Queen Victoria ■ and • tfifi . whole. Ifayal Family' ;' every dri'e 1 of ''them?' Who woylflhave the heart to destroy the _ ' hap 1 py illusion' of the loyal .ioul, akid c enlighten her on this point ? ,As a matter' of fabt 'theite 1 Wt&e' pr&e.Hty -i besides the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess BefaM'de-" 1 and the Princesses Victoria and Maud. "And Queen Victoria looked just as I had ajways .thought she 1 would lbok, : only J a ' nttle cfrifer. She stoops, and I don't stoop, though I am older than 'she*/ 1 I am;'seVenfy-'' r But she . has had troubles, gretffc' 'troubles'^ 'no. ' wbndei^ ' ' hey -> shoulders W 6 eni - S^e did not staflong T 16 W fefotaVn _6orii<; #het* ; li could think again they had all gone, and I forgot what she said/^i but I shall never forget how she smiled, and how sliruhook hands with me. Alter that we were taken all over Queen. Victoria's house. OhlMmifefM; 'foaufcM' fcimfgH of ,which it ,was full!. And we had 'ditfnktr in ; a 'lonely iob _d,- ! «.nd <we skw 1 1 1 her chapel, and the place where sh& sits when she^bfesWnfeetiiig*'* Thei jo ' Chapel will last for ever ; it looks as Jf it were built to last always, always. We went right to the top of Queen Victoria's . house ; .she allowed me to &c dvkiyiKitigS atod 'ttavve W* ''driven back to the station. 1 * ; "■• ' ■ n,iu"l ; .tf|i(f| mn; *')lq.i:._H