Mary's love for Francis.--How to cherish the passion.--Grand tournament.--Henry's pride.--An encounter.--The helmet.--The vizor.--King Henry wounded.--His death.--The mournful marriage.--The dauphin becomes king.--Catharine superseded.--Mary's gentleness.--Coronation of Francis.--Francis's health declines.--Superstition of the people.--Commotions in Scotland.--Sickness of the queen regent.--Death of Mary's mother.--Illness of Francis.--His last moments and death.--Mary a young widow.--Embassadors from Scotland.--Mary's unwillingness to leave France.--Mary in mourning.--She is called the White Queen.--A device.--Mary's employments.--Her beautiful hands.--Melancholy visit.--Mary returns to Paris.--Jealousy.--Queen Elizabeth.--Her character.--Henry VIII.--Elizabeth's claim to the throne.--Mary's claim.--The coat of arms.--Elizabeth offended and alarmed.--The Catholic party.--A device.--Treaty of Edinburgh.--The safe-conduct.--Elizabeth refuses the safe-conduct.--Mary's speech.--Mary's true nobility of soul.--Sympathy with her.--Mary's religious faith.--Her frankness and candor. It was said in the last chapter that Mary loved her husband, infirm and feeble as he was both in body and in mind. This love was probably the effect, quite as much as it was the cause, of the kindness which she showed him. As we are very apt to hate those whom we have injured, so we almost instinctively love those who have in any way become the objects of our kindness and care. If any wife, therefore, wishes for the pleasure of loving her husband, or which is, perhaps, a better supposition, if any husband desires the happiness of loving his wife, conscious that it is a pleasure which he does not now enjoy, let him commence by making her the object of his kind attentions and care, and love will spring up in the heart as a consequence of the kind of action of which it is more commonly the cause. About a year passed away, when at length another great celebration took place in Paris, to honor the marriages of some other members of King Henry's family. One of them was Francis's oldest sister. A grand tournament was arranged on this occasion too. The place for this tournament was where the great street of St. Antoine now lies, and which may be found on any map of Paris. A very large concourse of kings and nobles from all the courts of Europe were present. King Henry, magnificently dressed, and mounted on a superb war-horse, was a very prominent figure in all the parades of the occasion, though the actual contests and trials of skill which took place were between younger princes and knights, King Henry and the ladies being generally only spectators and judges. He, however, took a part himself on one or two occasions, and received great applause.