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    MADAME MARIE PAPE-CARPANTIER. 299

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    « Marie Cakpantiee -Was Born At La Fleeh...

    and it was amidst grief and poverty tliat this little girl "was introduced to the worldHer childhood was very sad;—neither games

    . portion nor playthings Slie , never nor the experienced petting incidental any of those to famil childish y life were gaieties her

    . which have neither cause nor meaning * Ibeyond the child itself ; but , on the contrary , she often cried without knowing why , as if her

    mother ' s tears had overflowed upon her youthful head . It is true that Madam nothing e Carpantier in the was household far from her was own calculated province to ; in insp solitude ire joy she .

    Instruction " for worked her day boy in and and France ni g g irl ht . , in for Her order at life that to was procure time wholl there livelihood devoted was no and to gr education her atu work itous y

    and her childrenand the little girl was equally absorbed by her school duties and , those she owed to her mother . well

    When Marie came home in the evening she also worked as she children as she saw was them calling able out each ; of onl other her y sometimes second to play -floor , when from -window house she heard gail to y house the dressed nei , or ghbors read when y '

    for the sunny promenade , her poor little heart swelled , and she felt what she afterwards so sweetly expressed in verse : —

    " Mere I la jour finit , ta main doit etre lasse , Xiaisse enfin ton travail , laisse attriste que je t ' embrasse hui !

    Je ne sais quoi me pese et m ' aujourd' . ****** — " Viens Pour , j ' ai ' en peur aller de courir la vie a ! tr O av mere ers les quel camp ennui agnes !

    s X _Leurs T _/ antot habits j ' ai vu les etaient partir suivaient beaux mes petites fieres , et leur de com fronts leurs pagn enfants es triomp . hants ,

    eurs meres , Triste 6 Accours que , ' m fais ' ont tu elles la quand dit : — le ' Viens ciel est colomb si doux e isolee ? : viens !

    E Xie t moi plaisir les est au champ leur s , sle coeur aux tout champs avec d ' env nous ie "

    Je n ' , que y leur eux re en pondre p , , et je me suis enfuie gros — , Oh ! qu ' elles auront du . courir et folatrer ! "

    Thenindeedshe returned to her work at her mother ' s knee , whoto , distract , the child ' s mind from her trouble , told her stories

    especiall of the , happy y which . Marie past sustained , was of the never the lo mother st weary sister during , of and hearing of twenty her of father years him — ; of and of labor him the

    became memory for the daughter the most powerful protection in a world better where knew youth all and that povert the y familiar need a defender talk of a . mother Than can this do child to , attract none

    the heart and elevate the mindwhile it strengthens the soul by linking the thought of God and , the inmates of His spiritual world

    . with At dail the y life . of elevenhaving made her premiere communion ,

    Marie left age schoolwhere she , had only been taught to read and write , ,

    longer and began during thencefo three rth or four to work , but as twelve hard as hours Madame a day Carpantier , and that the no

    Madame Marie Pape-Carpantier. 299

    MADAME MARIE PAPE-CARPANTIER . 299

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/11/