The late Empress of Austria, who was a fine rider, spent some time one spring in Paris, and rode every morning in the Bois.

The feudal lords were forced to give up such castles and lands as they had wrongfully usurped; and the newly-created earls were deprived of titles which they had wrung from King or Empress in the civil wars.

Monsieur de Laval, you may escort the Empress to Pont de Briques, where I shall see you at the reception.' CHAPTER XV THE RECEPTION OF THE EMPRESS Pont de Briques is but a small village, and this sudden arrival of the Court, which was to remain for some weeks, had crammed it with visitors.

FORMER KAISERIN WEEPS The meeting of former Emperor William and the former empress at Amerongen is described by a Dutch correspondent as follows: "The gates were thrown open, the drawbridge was lowered with a noise of chains and iron bars that sounded very medieval, and in the courtyard before the castle an elderly man in a gray military cloak was seen at a distance, walking slowly and leaning on his stick.

I didn't see the Empress on her horse, as we lost sight of them very soon.

It was clearly the man's business to know empresses by sight.

Except that as yet she saw no prospect of presenting the empress with a grandchild, she had hardly a wish ungratified.

Take them to your empress as a fit memorial of your German deeds, and my pictures will cover the balance of my indebtedness to you.

In the year 1758, three old women, condemned to death for witchcraft, were brought by order of the Empress from Croatia to Vienna, to undergo an examination, with regard to the equity of the sentence pronounced against them.

'Let us leave them,' said the voice of the Empress behind me.

"Combustibles were hurled from the Bishop's Castle," William of Malmesbury tells us, "in the houses of the townspeople, who, as I have said, rather wished success to the empress than to the bishop, which caught and burned the whole abbey of nuns within the city and the monastery which is called Hyde without the walls.

' She rose as she said these words, and began to pace the room, with quiet, firm step, erect, stately, beautiful in her advanced years as she had been in her bloom and freshness, only with another kind of beautyan empress among women.

"Who are these," said he, "coming hither, scourged in the blackest part of the hurricane?" "She at the head of them," said Virgil, "was empress over many nations.

Instructions are preparing for the Lady who shall have so much Zeal as to undertake this Pilgrimage, and be an Empress for the sake of her Religion.