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times with the same family at Mordreux : sometimes at La Brousse the residence of his friend M . de Marzanall in Bretagne : nor did
, he take up his abode in Paris till February , 1834 . About two years had passed since leaving the Stanislas College . Eventful
years they had been to him—but those which were to come were more sad for himself and others . At first on coming to Paris he
made some trial of literary employment—but this , partly perhaps from a want of adaptive powerpartly from the conscience , which if it
, did not fix him to any rule , could make a random life unhappy , did not issue in more than a few very striking essays of his pen ; among
others that masterly fragment , the " Centaur . " He made new friends ; he felt the intoxication of some literary and political circles—for a
time he certainly did discard his earliest habits , and ( unwilling as his family were to believe it ) we cannot doubt , that he had also
this become in the estranged " Centaur from / 7 a his fancy earl -p y iece faith which . We any do man not see of genius any proof might of
have written , but in the remarkable absence from his Journals and letters of any of those Catholic expressions which so naturally
flow from his sister ' s pen - . He writes generally with pain and with a feeling of unrest . He was now twenty-five ; time stole on ,
often unsatisfactorily ; and besides the difficulty of settling his mental position , the outward necessity of earning money pressed
upon him , for his father , though never grudging aid , was poor himself . Nothing occurred to the young man which could place
him above want so readily as teaching , and accordingly he sought and obtained employment in the Stanislas College . He worked
most manfully . His friends must have been proud of him then , though they would feel that it was not the life they had desired for
him from the beginning . His occupations took him up from seven in the morning till six in the evening , and he secluded himself very
much from social indulgence . " I turn my wheel , " he says in one of his letters , "in an equal , uninterrupted manner , fastened to my
work , like the Scythian slaves whose masters put Out their eyes that they miht pursue their labour without distraction . "
Painful g necessity , for such a man , with his lofty , poetical _siDirit ! to spend all his days and hours in cramming Latin into boys at
school , —and poorly was the labour paid for . A brighter prospect , howeveropened to him . A young ladyborn and brought up in
Indianow , returned to Paris , came across , his dull way . " She certainl , y was not born for me , " he tells a friend , " if we consult
probabilities ; but fortune , who loves surprises , has sent her to my arms from India . These are her sudden strokes . " The lady had
fortune , and her friends at first disapproved , but difficulties were conqueredand they were married on the 15 th November , 1838 .
, The entries in Eugenie ' s journals intimate her presence at Cayla , and also show that Maurice was there in 1837-8 .
The joy of Eugenie was unspeakable . The event brought out
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/30/
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