The modern Agnes Sorel of Bavaria has been expelled from
the states of King Louis, under the compulsion of a popular tumult. The whole affair is one of those dramatic scenes that appear to happen in real life, occasionally, as if to justify the novelist and playwright. Lola Montez was assailed by a mob in the streets ; she took refuge with the King in a church—sallied forth again, pistol in hand—was roughly treated—rescued—banished by a de- cree wrung from the King ; returned in man's clothes, and was finally sent off to Switzerland. The secret of such influences as that attained by the fascinating Spaniard are not very recondite : King Louis is a poet by profession, and it must be exquisitely flattering to find himself the hero of a practical love-story--of a living libretto. The lady is said to have departed in the confident expectation that the King will abdicate and follow her I
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