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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), February 1859, Edition 1 of 1, Page 398, 398 THE SORROWS OF ESTEIXE !LAM:AGE.

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    • LIV.—THE SORROWS OF ESTELLE LAMAGE.
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      The Life Of An Actress Is To The World A...

      in the agent's "book , who , in the event of a manager ' s application , forwards to him a list of all those whom he may consider

      eligible for the work he requires , and carries on any negotiations that may ensue . The terms for making engagements are fixed ,

      and any profits arising from these go to the funds of the Association . There are several other dramatic agencies besides this ,

      some of them of many years' standing . The office of this excellent institution , in connection with which many other benefits to the

      dramatic world are already springing up , is situated at 35 , Bow Street , Covent Garden , where a room is reserved for the use of

      the members , in which bills of the London aiid country theatres , newspapers , ete . _> may be seen .

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      398 The Sorrows Of Esteixe !Lam:Age.

      398 THE SORROWS OF ESTEIXE ! LAM : AGE .

      Liv.—The Sorrows Of Estelle Lamage.

      LIV . —THE SORROWS OF ESTELLE LAMAGE .

      ¦* »¦ The Other Day I Walked With Madame...

      _¦* _»¦ The other day I walked with Madame de Mourito the little

      gny village of Puit aux Pres , a village celebrated as a favorite place of , pilgrimage , both on account of its possessing a holy well and a shrine

      of the Virgin , held in high repute by the sailors of two sea-ports lying about ten miles distant from Puit , up and down the coast .

      Being desirous of seeing as much of foreign life as lies in my way , my friend , who is acquainted with the Cure of the village , proposed

      that we should call at his house . Pie is a man held in great esteem for many miles round , both on accountof his amiable disposition

      and learning and for the influence he _possesses _^ over the minds of the Puit peop aux le . Presstanding high and solitarycommanding a distant

      , , view of the sea and remote from any town , surrounded by farstretching corn fields and low hills , consists like many another

      French village of a chateau , a church , one long straggling street of mean white-washed cottages , of an auberge , ( at Puit aux Pres it is

      the Cheval Blanc , ) and of the Cure ' s house ; Monsieur le Cure's home terminating it . The nearest approach to a shop that meets your eye ,

      as you walk down the roughly paved street , is a window peeping through clustering vine leaves , and filled with brown jars and small

      fiat baskets of fruit , which at a moment ' s notice are brought out as the wheels of the old yellow diligence-are heard toiling up the steep

      dusty hill . These wheels are equally a signal to all the barefooted boys of the parish , eager to hail its approach , and to the village

      Croesus , who , crutch in hand , hobbles out of his dirty hut to bless or to curse such travellers as grant or deny his petitions for sous ,

      which he covets as increase to his already fabulous wealth . Although

      we arrived on foot , instead of in the diligence ' , we had been : pursued

  • Citation
    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/38/