Footprints of an American Emperor [pp. 395-405]

Overland Monthly
VOL. XXXII. (Second Series.) -November, i898.- No. i9i
FOOTPRINTS OF AN AMERICAN EMPEROR
AN HISTORIC TRAGEDY
BY ARTHUR INKERSLEY
CARLOTTA
MAXIMILIAN
OME thirty-five years ago there was
living at a beautiful castle named
Miramar, near Trieste, a young,
high-born, and highly accomplished
couple. The husband was engaged in
writing accounts of his extensive travels,
and the wife in the study of the French,
English, German, Italian, and Spanish
languages, all of which she spoke with
ease and fluency, and in kind ministrations to the sick and suffering poor
around them. The name of the husband
was Maximilian, and of the wife, Carlotta: they were devotedly attached to
each other.
Prince Ferdinand Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, second son of the Archduke Francis Charles, and brother of
Ferdinand I. of Austria, was a Rear-Admiral in the Austrian Navy; a man of
graceful and tall figure; of genial, though
never familiar, bearing; a good linguist,
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