The Empress Eugenie

-Tho press Engenie is in u stnto of perpetual terror about the c:ondition pf her soul. lier mind stottering At one moment sha i for setting out on a pilgrimnge to the Holy Land, at another she is absorbed in all the mysteries of ppiitt rapping j then the Einperor finds her in a state of nervous affeetion, as if lifo vvns an absolute biirden to her. Tho priests has-e told her that Provlclenoo haa assigned toher a grand role, and whilo she lovés the Emporcr and her Jlttle child with her w.bola streiiKth, sho is ia doubt whelher sho ougtit nót to descrt both - throne and ;ill- the sake oí tha V"icar o Ghrist',