THINK AGAIN I PRAY YOU.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 180, 9 June 1879, Page 2

THINK AGAIN I PRAY YOU.

Ttin — ANECDOTE OF QUEEN VICTORIA,

The Queen was not twenty years of ago wM'&tetfded into possession of power with a heart fresh, tender, and pi^re,and with all her instincts inclined ! t'J nlerby, that it tried her strength of resolution to tlio utmost. On a bright,; beautiful morning, tlio young Queen was waited upon at her palace at Windsor, by the Duke of Wellington, who various papers requiring her signature to render them operative. One of them waa a aentciiGe of prbnounccd agiinst ft gf ;Hielinb—tliit senfejiGCl MM ho be shot'deiul. 'tfieQuedii lookdd'ilpon tlio . papeiv aiidihen Jooked upon the wondrous beauties .that ri ?i.t'ure jiaci spi'p'ad'tij fer view. 411© "iiaked. The duke " Ah my royal mistress, "that' liiatil'fear is incorrigible.' He has deserted three times." " And can you not say anything in life behalf my ,lofd, 1" .Wellington-shook his iiead,"Oh'tinhrAgaiii,' tpray you." Seeing that Her Majesty was so deeply she not :"kye tii& L . ma'nii : BlioF inf any evihl, lie finally confessed'' that' ' tlie' nijiiji'" was bravo, and gallant, and a ''really "good soldier. "But," he added, "think of the

iii'flu'iifiCO'!'' f -Influeilee:J.V.the;Queen cried her eyes flashing, and her bosom heaving with strong emotion. " Let it be ours to wield influence. I" will try mercy in this ; in'an's -'Case, and'Lchaige.you,., jour grace, to let me kndivyou said. Oh ! I thank you for that. And you may tell him." Then she took tlio papeij aiictAffbteV'iwilliitMtlrfirm hand, across the dark page, the bright, saying j". Tha duke was fond of telling tliestory'fandno 'was willing also to confess that the giving of that :-pApeL'-;ty: ; tlie pardoned, soldier . him far raoro joy than' ;"li.e cbiiiH; liave. 6'iperiencqc) froni the. taking of a city, ""''