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    THE SOR&OWS OF ESTELLE LAMAGE. 413

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

    tlie ceremony of was one over , and Now whilst Heaven standing take before tlie wife altar for , I in sh th . aU . e . my

    presence not ! ' and then every with loud , steps may strode out of the church . , Blanche , EstelleMonsieur le Cure , and all present , remained confounded as

    though , struck by a thunderbolt . returned " Blanche with , followed her mother by a crowd home of indi and gnant never sympathetic again crossed villagers the ,

    threshold of the little cottage . Pale , , dejected , and drooping , she was like one who had received a death blow . Her sorrow , her

    penitence those , who her meekness then saw , her and . her They sufferings have endeared , will never her be to many forgotten hearts by ,

    former if possible and even happ more ier days than . did In May her loveliness she gave birth of mind to whom a and little person the daugh in

    ter and , whom almost she heart desired -broken to grandmother be called Estelle shed , and many over tears both of poor love and sorrowIn a short timethe of the motherand then

    that of the . little infant , were , borne corpse along the young pathway to , repose in the neighbouring churchyard . Poor Estelle ! it were well for her

    could " Henriette she rest calml appeared y with again them at . the chateau within a few weeks thither b

    affcer her sister ' s death . She said that she had been sent y together keeper madanie being , to were take infirm evidentl charge . y of She on the and the apartments Jacque most intimate s of Castee the terms famil appeared y , , and the air house op spoke enly

    of their ht to approaching show their m contempt arriage . of By public a bold op and inion undaunted . The sole indi they - vidual soug whose expression of detestation has ever been known to make

    Jacques miser beggar visibly Whenever flinch , is a he well encounters known Castee character he utter here , s the the most rich

    . fearful to fling maledictions after him his against giffc of him a napoleon and Henriette , accompanied , and was with once the most seen

    horrible imprecations , although in general the old _beg-gar is ready to receive the merest trifle . about

    " Monsieur , as I told you , has gone this very day to the bishop tried business this miserable by , which the business business he can . prevent of The Satan good the himself marriage man , will and . Heaven leave Ah ! no it above means is a black onl un y -

    knows what the end of it will be ! " And with a deep sigh and mournful her relation shakin of this g of village her head tragedy , the Cure some 's old of housekeeper the principal termin actors ated in

    which it had been our lot to encounter ; during our afternoon ' s stroll through little Puit aux Pres .

    M . H .

    The Sor&Ows Of Estelle Lamage. 413

    THE SOR & OWS OF ESTELLE LAMAGE . 413

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/53/