Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — Queen Louisa and the Rose. [ARTICLE]

Queen Louisa and the Rose.

Before parting Napoleon spent a few momenta at her side, and at the end. turning, pulled from a bunch a beautiful rose, wlrich he offered- with gestures of gallantry and homage. Hesitating a moment, the Queen at last put her hand, and said as she accepted it, “At lea with Magdeburg.” “Madame/ 1 came the frigid reply, “it is mine to give and yours to accept.” But he gave his am to conduct her to the carriage, and as they descended the stair together the disappointed guest said, in a sentimental and emotional voice, “Is it possible that, having had the happiness of all, history, he will not afford me the possibility and the satisfaction of being able to assure him that he_has put uie under 'obligations for life?” ” With solemn tones Napoleon replied, “Madame, I am to be pitied; it is a fault of my unlucky star.” Queen Louisa’s own lady in waiting related that her sovereign’s bitterness overcame her at the last, aud as she stepped info the carriage she said, “Sire, you have cruelly deceived me.”— Century.