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Title: England in the nineteenth century;
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley, 1822-1904
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Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e popular alle-gations against him was that he was descended from aPolish Jew. His father w-as really a long-descended oldHighlander, who had hardly ever been out of Scotland inhis life. At last came the end. A member of the French Em-bassy writes thus from Berlin, June 15, 1888: — The Emperor died this morning at a quarter-past eleven.For some hours the end had been known to be near. TheEmperor had not been able to speak. All he could do was tomove his hand and his eyelids. Several persons who saw himyesterday assured me that no one could imagine how piteouswas the sight. At nine on the evening of June 14 the end seemedto be near, and all his family assembled round his bed. Thenight, however, was quiet. The Emperor did not move, but helived, for from time to time great tears rolled down his cheeks.About four oclock in the morning he took the hand of his wife,made a sign for Prince Bismarck to approach, and placed his handon hers. .A. few moments after the Empress fainted. At ten in
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PRINCE OF WALES QUEEN VICTORIAS JUBILEE. 427 the morning a garrison chaplain was brought in, who read theprayers for the dying. All those present knelt beside the bed,except an artist who had taken a sketch of the old Emperorsdeath-bed, and who was busily drawing in one corner of thechamber. Then it began to be perceived that the dying manwas becoming unconscious. Suddenly he raised his head, as ifto draw one more free breath, and then it fell back upon thepillow. The Empress was carried, hardly conscious, fromthe chamber. His son, the new Emperor, closed his eyes. He was buried, with far less pomp than his aged father,in the parish church at Potsdam. Had he lived, would Germany have esteemed him as sheought? It is hard, says the French writer I have quoted, to answer this question. The old German court partymay rejoice in its heart at his death; but the lower classes,the bourgeoisie, — men of letters, men of learning, thosewho are the marrow of the nation, — will despair, for the

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