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    92 bianca Mile si mojon.

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    About This Time Madame Mojon Lost Her Mo...

    _Tbe stant useful ly amused and beneficent and interested increases . M . y When sympath I was y grows , ray 1 I felt desire more to young

    , my own power , I rebelled _ag-ainst any obstacle in my way ; now , on the contrary , I am strong in my weahness ; I do all I can , and .

    leave the rest to God . "Do you know I am seriously thinking of impoverishing * my

    children for their good ? I think it will tend to their moral progress , and that is why it runs in my head . I would diminish , my rents

    that my boys might feel practically the necessity of working , not merely as amateurs . Henri willin all probabilitydevote himself

    , , to agriculture , and thus we _mig-ht give him an employment without his going * elsewhere to seek it . "

    When the Revolution of February , 1848 , broke out , Madame Mojon was true to herself .: She permitted her eldest son , then a

    pupil in the Polytechnic School , to confront danger 'with his comrades . Not one pusillanimous council , not a discouraging" objection ,

    escaped from the lips of this tender mother . Afterwards , during . the movement of Junewhich was a death-blow from all sides to

    the Republic , she permitted , the brothers to fight in the ranks of the National Guard .

    Far from imitatingthe rich Parisians , who reduced their expenses , dismissed their servantsand left the city . augmenting danger by

    the fear of it , she changed , in no particular , her mode of life . Her soirees were more frequent ; her house was open every evening to

    her sons' friends , and this at a time when her whole fortune was vested in the funds and in the stocks . No one was in greater

    danger than she , but she had taken her part . Her individual ruin signified little to her , provided society made one step onward .

    _" Every pulsation of my heart , " " she writes , on the 13 th of April , 1848 "is for France ; if we become poorit may be all the better

    for my , children . Mojon and I want but , little ; Julie will share our poverty with loveas she has shared our prosperity . We shall

    , go on loving one another more and more , and consequently we cannot be unhappy . " Admirable woman ! Those alone who do

    not fear poverty are securely rich . Her domestic ark rested on a mount to which neither national nor financial vicissitude could

    attain . Yet Madame Mojon witnessed with the deepest love and interest the events of ' 48 in her native as in her adopted country ,

    and the deplorable expedition of France against the Roman Republic filled her with grief . "It seems to me" she said " that

    I am witnessing a duel between my sons ! " , And indeed , her health was affected and her strength abated by the bitter

    disappointments she suffered in her patriotism . She did not live to see the final downfall of the liberal partybeingalas ! one of the

    first victims of the cholera , which raged , in Paris , in 1849 . She was seized on the 4 th of June : on the morning of the 5 th there

    moned was no ;— hope Emile of Scr her -westre recovery among ! the Her number dearest . friends On seeing were him sum , she -

    92 Bianca Mile Si Mojon.

    92 bianca Mile si mojon .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/20/