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162; MADAME MJCE, ~ OF ALGIERSv
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A Short Account Of The Life And Labors O...
thirteen she was so tall and womanly _tliat no one would have guessed her age ; three years after , when ' one of the Ins older pectors i came
to Montreehathe told her to make haste and grow , n order tha But t he other might , g lans ive her were a re entertaine gular certificate d for Eugenie as schoolmistress by her fami . ly ;
her parents wished p to see her and her younger sister married before they married Montrechat died her , and , and w there hen admirin a would _" youn g the probabl g gentleman beautiful y have gir fro l been m would Holland * no willing difficult " came ly have y in to
son arrang of ing _Qojuge the , in affair that , part but t of hat the Eugenie country liked . But , alas ebod ? y the else young —the under
favored lover died of consumption while Eugenie was yet ban twent opposition d y , She and when overheard she was her parents too the depressed m talking proposed and one to ' disheartened ni her ht a about M . Allix their to make as extreme a hus any
anxie . t in y to see her se of ttl the ed , and thus 1826 it was she that g became at the Madame age of twent Allix y- . one , January year , bt tbut
Little broug that it ht is was known a for very , the and unhappy priesthood nothing and need which unsui be idea said table , he a tie had . M his renounced . Allix marriage had as been , the
wh time once approached up married for he did taking not make hol , y orders his young . W wife hy he happy married , is one , and of
those y sad mysteries which are best left in the shadowed privacy of domestic lifeThat Madame Allix three times returned to her
. father then recen ' s house tl , and ired at last b , with the F her rench father _' s enou consen h t , to fled to Al and giers so , gsay ;
great M . Allix was sending her y acqu distress to inquire , an y d so for movin the fug g , itive represen , the Al t gerine ations , authori that on - heard of
ties actually sent back word that no such _tvoman had been in Madame the colony Allix / had left her only childher daughterin her
mother ' s careand now commenced a severe , struggle for , her own . maintenance . , . In . those early days of the colony . there was little
for an educated lady to do , and Madame Allix courageously accepted bread military occas any i and ona hosp In lly every , this but ital ; she emp owing passed also loyment no took many man in she sewing any years could thing , an b find , scure d . even ' earn years She wash in gave g of in honorable g industry for lessons the
. way , , and unmarked , so far as the purposes of this biography are conwhich cerned , Madame except by Allix the was death slowl of y maturing her father a in plan 1837 destined ; but later during to
produce a school much in which fruit ; irls a p of lan Mohammedan for the education famil of y Moorish should be women taug , — ht g
the language The Government and somewhat had alread of the established civilization schools of the for conquering _instruct _> -
race . y xng native boys in French , & c , but these institutions were not .
to flourishing _Ghriistiansj ; the more Mohammedans particularly if dreaded the Catholic entrusting priests * their had any children share
162; Madame Mjce, ~ Of Algiersv
162 ; MADAME MJCE , _~ OF ALGIERSv
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/18/
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