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CHAPTER X. 



Marshal Bazaine — l\Iadame la Mar^chale — Princess Iturbide — Tacubaya^ 

 San Augustin — A projected important mission — How it ended — We 

 go on an expedition — Meeting the enemy — Result — Arrival in Tulan- 

 cingo — Order to evacuate — ^Jimmy — Carabajal, the robber-general — 

 March to Puebla — Meeting the Emperor Maximilian — The ' woman 

 in white ' — I fall ill — General panic — Returning to Mexico — The 

 family Hube — Departure of the French — The Emperor leaving for 

 Queretaro — Salm going after him — I am left behind — General Mar- 

 quez — General Vidaurri — Good news — The bactle of San Lorenzo — 

 Marquez a coward — Portirio Diaz before Mexico. 



The fate of Marshal Bazaine would not fail to call for our 

 sympathy if he had done only what a rather prejudiced court 

 found him guilty of, but he has forfeited all claims to sympathy 

 by the manner in which he behaved when in Mexico. Though 

 our religion teaches us that all bad actions are recorded and 

 will fmd their punishment after death, it is always satisfactory 

 if fate overtakes bad men in this life, and I regret that my poor 

 husband did not live to see how Mexico and its noble Empe- 

 ror were revenged on this bad, cruel, brutal, and mean man, 

 and his crafty master. 



History informs us that in every country where the French 

 entered as conquerors they made themselves hated by their 

 overbearing rapacity and cruelty, but scarcely anywhere did 

 they dishonour their country in a more barefaced manner than 

 they did in Mexico, for they had rarely a chief who encouraged 

 them so openly by his own example as was done by Bazaine. 



The French officers treated the Mexicans wdth the utmost 

 arrogance and contempt. Gentlemen who met them in the 

 street were insulted and kicked off the side-walks without hav- 

 ing given any oftence. Ladies dared not venture going in the 



