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Ch. 3: The Famous Pelegrina Pearl

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LA PELEGRINA.                               71
reed-covered swamp are all that now remain. The island is gone, so also are the royal houses whose meeting there was so great an event.
There is one occasion upon which the Pele-grina served to deck a bride so young and fair that it deserves more than a passing notice. The bride was Marie Louise d'Orleans, the first wife of Charles II. This poor sickly King, the last descendant of the mighty Charles v., was a very shy boy and extremely averse to the society of women. When he was about seventeen his mother and the royal council decided that he must be married, and they cast their eyes upon the neighboring house of France, into which Spanish monarchs were in the habit of marrying when not engaged with it in war. The only suitable lady was "Mademoiselle" — for such was in ancient France the distinctive title of the eldest niece of the King. Mademoiselle, besides being niece to Louis xiv., was furthermore pretty, vivacious, and only sixteen. Her portrait was
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