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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: in his black imagination) wakes his best beloved, to make her
partaker--you will never be able to guess of what--to make her
partaker of his nocturnal visions. Flambeaux are lighted, and
search is made everywhere; but no spectre does Madame Mazarine
find, except that which lay by her in the bed."
The distresses to which she was subjected were increased by the
knowledge that her husband was squandering her vast fortune. In
what manner the money was spent she does not state. "If" she
writes, "Monsieur Mazarine had only taken delight in overwhelming
me with sadness and grief, and in exposing my health and my life
to his most unreasonable caprice, and in making me pass the best
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