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HENRIETTA MARIA OF FRANCE. 463 exhausted, the unhappy queen made her way "over the rocks" to the abode of some peasants; "all the strokes of fortune upon her magnanimous soul, like the breaking of the waves upon a rock of diamonds, unable to shake, but only washing it to a greater brightness." After remaining four months at the baths of Bourbon she came to Paris, where "the king and queen, with the Duke of Anjou, went out to receive her, with every testimony of ten der friendship;" and the Louvre, the place of her birth, with St. Germain for a country seat, was assigned to her as a residence, with a pension of twelve thousand crowns a month ; the last, according to more "than one authority, being contrib- uted by the French clergy. But affection could not obliterate the blight of care ; "at this time she was so much disfigured by illness and misfortune that she had scarce any marks of her beauty left, though the expression of her face had some- thing in it still so agreeable as charmed everybody that saw her." Her temper, naturally so gay, was now saddened by grief; yet "even when the tears trickled down her cheeks, if any one happened to pass a jest she suppressed them as well as she was able, to please the company ; while the gravity of woe rendered her more considerable than she would have been, perhaps, if she had never known sorrow." Devoted as ever to her husband's interests, her advice, if promptly followed after his successes in the west by a march upon London, would doubtless have changed the final aspect of the war, although his resistance to her injunction by Sir William Davenant that "he should part with the church for his peace and security" proved not only her want of unity with him in matters of faith, but her ignorance of that high tone of principle which induced the king's resolution to main- tain his oath inviolate, even at the hazard of his life. His precept to his son upon his blessing, "never to yield to any conditions that were dishonorable, or derogatory to legal au- thority, though it were for the saving of his (the king's) life," he illustrated by example, and was thus spared that "disquiet of mind" which is sharper than the axe of the executioner. Charles' idea of a persecuted church was that it did not thereby become less pure, though less fortunate ; but having no dependence upon Henrietta's counsels in these respects, we find him making an exception to his son in that total direction