e I then
felt!

Thou hast lost thy gaiety; persecution has stripped you of
it; and has robbed you of your health. The happiness of your
life is already disturbed. But now, and more solidly than
ever, are you attached to me. Nobody will ever be able to
separate us. You have suffered because you love me.

When accounts of what was happening in Bavaria reached England a well
pickled rod was applied to Lola's back:

"The sanguinary and destructive conduct of the Munich mob," began a
furious leading article, "was caused by the supposed return of
Bavaria's famous strumpet, Lola Montez. This heroine was once familiar
to the eyes of all Paris, and notorious as a courtesan. When she was
invested with a title, the Bavarians shuddered at their degradation.
It was nothing less than an outrage on the part of royalty, never to
be forgotten or forgiven."

The columns of _Maga_ also wielded the rod in vigorous fashion:

"The late King, one of the most accomplished of dilettanti,
worst of poets, and silliest of men, had latterly put the
coping-stone to a life of folly by engaging in a most
bare-faced intrigue with the notorious Lola Montez. The
indecency and infatuation of this last _liaison_--far more
openly conducted than any of his former numerous amours--had
given intense umbrage to the nobility whom he had insulted
by elevating the ci-devant opera-dancer to their ranks."

Yet, with all his faults heavy upon him, Ludwig, none the less, had
his points. Thus, in addition to converting Munich from a second-rate
town to a really important capital, he did much to encourage the
development of art and letters and science and education throughout
his kingdom. Ignaz Doellinger, the theologian, Joseph Goerres, the
historian, Jean Paul Richter, the poet, Franz Schwanthaler, the
sculptor, and Wilhelm Thirsch, the philosopher, with Richard Wagner
and a host of others basked in his patronage. When he died, twenty
years later, these facts were remembered and his little slips
forgotten. The Muencheners gave him burial in the Basilica; and an
equestrian statue, bearing the inscription, "Just and Persevering,"
was set up in the Odeon-Platz.

It is the fashion among certain historians to charge Lola Montez with
responsibility for the revolution in Bavaria. But this charge is not
justified. The fact is, the kingdom was ripe for revolution; and the
equilibrium of the governm