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The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

CHAPTER III
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Love the king, your grandfather; be humane like him; be always accessible to the unfortunate.

If you behave in this manner, it is impossible that happiness can fail to be your lot.' My daughter will love you, I am certain, because I know her.

But the more that I answer to you for her affection, and for her anxiety to please you, the more earnestly do I entreat you to vow to her the most sincere attachment.
"Farewell, my dear dauphin.

May you be happy.

I am bathed in tears.[2]" The dauphin did not falsify the hopes thus expressed by the Empress-queen.
But his was not the character to afford his wife either the advice or support which she needed, while, strange to say, he was the only member of the royal family to whom she could look for either.


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