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MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS. 161
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A Short Account Of The Life And Labors O...
Ti famous ght in Hundred two ! Napoleon Dsand was the in famil temporary were in authority a deadl _during friht lest the y y g
the Bonapartists of ay the , neighborhood should know what had occurred . They were obliged to buy the silence of the servant who
was with the children , and Eugenie went back to her parents with a reputation Another whimsical for patriotism historiette somewhat of those dearl bygone y purchased days is . as follows .
At a dinner party in the neighborhood where the Berlau family posed A were present to , whose pit , Mademoiselle the father < politics was of a Eugenie Bonapartist the guests against were , in a mixed a sort certain of , musical and little it was tourna Master pro - -
ment . The children were put one on each side of the dining-table , and were to sing alternate songs in honor of their respective parties . Eugenie , who possessed a great store of songs and ballads in followed honor
of the Fleur-de-Lys , struck up valiantly , and Master A with his side of the question . Song after song proceeded for some time without ingbut the moment came whenalas !
Master A J s any memory nagg was , completely exhausted , whereas Eugenie , , to whom her brought sheets of royalist rhymes whenever he
Trent to town , papa continued crowing triumphantly like a little cock , to Master A- ' s infinite disgust and mortification . The guests
endeavored to make it _uj ) , and proposed that the young people should kiss and be friends . But I am sorry to say that though Master A
was fourteen years old , and considerably the senior of Eugenie , — he probably thought that a young * lady with such strong political
her princi age ples and and sex audacious , —he absolut lungs ely was refused unworth to y kiss of the and privileges be friends of ,
and , lamentable to relate , he rushed across the table and dealt her a hearty cuff , which it is whispered that Eugenie returned with
interest . Many years after , when Eugenie was a young married woman , she accompanied one of her sisters to a chemist's shop the .
Her sister asked , " Doyou know that young man across counter ? " " No / ' said Eugenie , " I have never seen him before . " The _sister then said to the chemist"Do you not know this lady ?"
, he " I politel have not the iC Have honor of then bein forgotten g acquainted the w little ith Madame girl whom " replied you
cuffed because y . she out you sang you , in 1815 ? " At that time the Bourbons were safe and sound on the throne of France , but their
youthful defender had changed her politics and had become republican When Eugenie ! was thirteen years oldher family suffered severe
affliction by the death of the brother nearest , to her in age , a fine joxvag man of twenty , who was at college at Poitiers . she Her dreaded father
and mother were so overwhelmed By this . blow that their sinking under it , and persuaded her father to quit his countrylife and remove once more into Montrechat . As a further means of
creating a little more movement in the house , she opened a small school , of which the pupils were as old as _# he herself , ' but at
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Madame Luce, Of Algiers. 161
MADAME LUCE , OF ALGIERS . 161
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/17/
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