EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE'S KIND HEAET.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4991, 10 January 1885, Page 4

EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE'S KIND HEAET.

As Eugenic, the ex-Empress of the French in '67 knelt by the pallet of a cholera-stricken man in the hospital at Amiens, pressing his dying hand ; he murmured half unconsciously, " Thank you, my sister," mistaking her for one of the nurses. " It is not a sister." whispered tbe nun in his ear; "it is our Empress come to yisit us." "Do not correct him," said Eugenic promptly, "he cannot give me a nobler Dame." That same day she moved towards a closed door. The head surgeon in attendance begged her not to cross it, ag it led to the small-pox ward, and to some dangerous cases. " Let me see them," she said, " they suffer too," and then she entered. ' She had as little care for her beauty as for her life, and the crowd outside recognised the abnegation of the woman as well as the bravery of the sovereign, and she was well nigh carried in triumph to her carriage, and her attendants, when they disrobed her, found that the hem of her garment had been cut and carried off' as relics. With the faults and failings of her nature and education, faults that hastened, perhaps, the fall of her short" lived popularity, she bad tbe reckless intrepidity of her Celtic origin and the indomitable will of her Spanish fore fathers. The beauty of Madrid, the sovereign of the Tuileries, the widow of Fanborough was never lacking in spirit and couragev