Capitolo 44
totally gives a new expression to his/her face. He replaced the other suits,
also, for those that he had usually accustomed for bringing. The whole party
succeeded so in to cross the country without the discovery. They arrived
Gravesend, embarked there on axle a vase and it sailed to Holland,
where James united to the Prince of Orange and his/her sister, and you/he/she sent word
to his/her mother that he had arrived there in safety.
His/her small brother and sister had gone away behind. They was too much young people
to fly him, and too much old to be brought away, as the small Henrietta
you/he/she had been, in the arm of another. However, they had the mournful ones
the satisfaction to see them little father before his/her execution, and of
offering him/it a last goodbye. The king, when he was condemned for dying,
implored to be permitted to see these children. They was brought for visiting
him in the room where he was confined. His/her interview of division with
the communications of the affection and goodbye and they to which he sent them
brothers and sisters, and to them mother, constitutes more anymore one of the
touching scenes that the telescope of history brings to our sight,
in that long and distant sight of the past that trains us this way
fully to explore. The small Gloucester was too much youth to understand
the pains of the time, but Elizabeth felt them in all of their intensity.
You were twelve years old. When it brought his/her father, her the burst in
torn wounds, and he/she cried from very and bitterly. His/her small brother, sympathizing
in the pain of his/her sister, although not understanding his/her cause, he/she cried
bitterly also. Elizabeth was thoughtful enough to write an account of
what happened to this more solemn goodbye as soon as you/he/she was ended.
Its account is as it follows:
"_What that the king has told me on January 29, 1648, the last time
I had the happiness to see him_.
"He told me that he was happy I had come, for, although he didn't have time
still rather he wished to say a lot, to tell me, what he was not able