Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... The portrait in the frontispiece of this book was taken in Florence, and represents the Countess Aemlia, heiress of Darwentwater in her seventeenth year. In the year 1847, when all the states of Germany were in a blaze with revolution, the Countess and her brother returned from Italy, as much of their property was invested in the German empire, and much of it was lost in that year. As soon as the Earl had placed his sister in safety under the care of her trustees, he himself repaired to Paris; and he was one who assisted the escape of his Majesty, Louis Philippe, the King of the French, in 1847, to England. The Earl had been a volunteer in the French army; and, after seeing his king's royal foot in safety on English soil, the land of the free, he returned to Paris to assist the other branch of royalty. Young Darwentwater's great concern was for the widowed Duchess of Orleans, and her two young princes of the blood royal, who were at one time in the greatest danger by the frenzy of the mob. This heir of Darwentwater, like his ancestors, followed the misfortunes of royalty, and, in company with three of Britannia's noble sons, who were living in exile at that time--a Lascelles, an Ossulston, and a heroic Wintoun, they travelled as the mute body-guard behind the sorrowing mother, Duchess of Orleans, to Germany, wholly unknown to her royal highness. The next lamentable scene the Earl had to witness by the fury of a mob, was the murder of the Prince Lichnousky, who was a relation of the Princess Sobieskey, the mother of the Earl, and the Countess Amelia. This heart-rending sight at Frankfort, in 1848, gave a shock to the Earl's constitution which he never overcame. In 1848, he made his will, leaving his sister, the Countess Amelia, sole...
