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MADAME MARIE PAPE-CARPANTIER. 301
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« Marie Cakpantiee -Was Born At La Fleeh...
to her new duties with , zeal—nay , almost witli passion—and she sue- _, f yond ceeded those beyond and which des the ired she hopes had still which pl aced t anyone er before success had her ; entertained own her i fellow magination , -town but speop not . She be le
oresaw g r zeal young epaid and her girl efforts d . In tion yet speaking b more y sympath devoted of this y which period eman doubled ated of her from her first the powers labors heart ; , warmer she of this has
said" _' on me pardonne den parler avec Joie _, ce fut la plus heureuse hase , de ma vie " p But this incessant , and excessive labor told upon the frail and
been writing her delicate ambition weakened a organization book took upon by no years hi of the Marie of direction fl sedentary iht Carpantier ) that of toil Salles her . , d which ail She d' y Asile exp was liad , erience thinking dreaming previousl and ( the for of y
gg happy results she obtained in a field of labor yet very novel—the education of quite little children she _—wouldbe to _Liseful thi to other ideinto mistresses .
t But ion at her the stren very th moment broke down when . To hoped the immense put s excitement a execu of all - her faculties succeeded g an utter exhaustion . Four years of toil had
fe so eling severel " she y injured wrote one her of health the saddest that she poems feared in death her publi ; and shed under volume this .
Or ratherit was not so much death that she feared , as the leaving her mother , alone in the world . Slie made up her mind to quit tlie
asileto renounce this first and precious activity , and abandon her work , of renovation into unknown hands . These are griefs which words the
must be felt by the reader rather than detailed in by writer ! had absolute
leisure contact During th with an these in cultivated any four previous years and she refined period had . peop , h She ow le ever had and , been in particular more brought with into
M des . de Salles _Neuf d' bourgs Asile , then "With President a heart of the an Commission , elevated Adm intellect inistrativ and e
unble mished conduct . this pure excellent man , was surrounded , with universal and well-deserved , esteem . He showed Mademoiselle
profited Carpantier by her the intercourse most truly with paternal this gentleman kindness her , , and wlio she enli st g le eagerl htened and y
broug her mind ht her , cultivated out into int her ellectual taste life , corrected . She to now her expresses mentall literary the what strongest y , her gratitude to himingthat he was y
mother had been , morally say , , and observing , " Aussi ces deux filiale reconnaissances dureront autant ma vie . _"
From the time when Mademoiselle que Carpantier took up her post at tho asileher character seemed to have conrpletely changed . Slie
had and " almost been as , violentl a girl grave passionate and melanchol . One y day , imp when atient " of walking any injustice on _tlie ,
knocked old ramparts down of and La y Fleche struck , by she three saw great one of boys , her , older young than comp he anion was s ,
or than she herself . Marie rushed upon them like a lioness , dragged
Madame Marie Pape-Carpantier. 301
MADAME MARIE PAPE-CARPANTIER . 301
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/13/
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