Maffia and Omert
by Richard Bagot (9781150749407)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE NATIONAL REVIEW. No. 216. -- FEBRUARY, 1901. EPISODES OF THE MONTH. Illness Of The Queen. Although the Queen had reached a great age and her health had been an anxiety to those around her for some time past, the announcement on January 18th thai she was seriously ill produced a feeling of stupefaction throughout the entire community. Men had never discussed or considered the age of the Queen any more than the age of the nation to which she had become vital, and they had never contemplated a future without the Queen. In the second place, the state of her health had been considerately concealed from her people, and her future movements had been somewhat ostentatiously discussed in the Press, as she was known to dislike any fuss about herself. Therefore it was like the falling of a thunderbolt to read in the Court circular: -- "The Queen has not lately been in her usual health and is unable for the present to take her customary drives. The Queen during the past year has had a great strain upon her powers, which has rather told upon Her Majesty's nervous system. It has, therefore, been thought advisable by Her Majesty's physicians that the Queen should be kept perfectly quiet in the house, and should abstain for the present from transacting business." The newspapers one and all tried to put a bold face on the matter, and to make light of this grave bulletin, but it was no use. Their readers, without actuallyknowing, felt that a crisis had come, and that a catastrophe inixht bo expected, ft transpired that the Queen's strength had Hliown itiffnB of breaking down a few weeks previously, when for tho...

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