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A DRAMATIC CRITIC about the sick woman, Miss Cushman's power took on an unearthly beauty and sweetness which keenly touched the lis- tener's heart, often below the source of tears. Her cry, out of the depths of her great storm-beaten heart, of infinite long- ing for the rest of paradise, after her vision of the " blessed troop," who invited her to a banquet, — " Spirits of peace, where are ye? are ye all gone, And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye ? " — will be recalled to-day by thousands of men and women, and at this mere men- tion the lines will echo and reecho through the chambers of their memories. Katha- rine's one flash of indignation at the rude- ness of a messenger — queenly wrath, for an instant clearing her voice and lifting her form — made more effective the rapid lapse in strength which naturally followed. Capucius, the gentle envoy of her " royal nephew," the Emperor Charles V., has entered with messages of " princely com- [ 90 ]
CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN mendations " and comfort from King Henry. To him she gave her last charges, all for deeds of loving-kindness to those about her, with an eagerness of desire which carried through her broken voice. Her messages of meekness and unfal- tering affection to her false husband were, of all her touching words, the most poignant. In her commendation of her daughter Mary to the king, who is besought " a little to love " the child, — " for her mother's sake that lov'd him, ^^^ Heaven knows hoiv dearly — and in her word of farewell to Henry, — In all humility unto his highness : " Remember me Say his long trouble now is passing" Out of this world: tell hifji^ in death I blessed hifn^ For so I will" — the supreme point of pathos was reached. The throb and thrill of her voice in the italicized lines deserve never to be for- [ 91 ]
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CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN<br />
mendations " and comfort from King<br />
Henry. To him she gave her last charges,<br />
all for deeds of loving-kindness to those<br />
about her, with an eagerness of desire<br />
which carried through her broken voice.<br />
Her messages of meekness and unfal-<br />
tering affection to her false husband<br />
were, of all her touching words, the most<br />
poignant. In her commendation of her<br />
daughter Mary to the king, who is besought<br />
" a little to love " the child, —<br />
" for her mother's sake that lov'd him,<br />
^^^ Heaven knows hoiv dearly —<br />
and in her word of farewell to Henry, —<br />
In all humility unto his highness :<br />
" Remember me<br />
Say his long trouble now is passing"<br />
Out of this world: tell hifji^ in death I blessed<br />
hifn^<br />
For so I will" —<br />
the supreme point of pathos was reached.<br />
The throb and thrill of her voice in the<br />
italicized lines deserve never to be for-<br />
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