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226 MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS.
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* For Another Month Madame Allix Struggl...
in ha t elli been gent Ad arried minis ou t t , t t ion resu had lt attained one , course and success to take was to ce accept rtain ; the an
y , in civilizin to consideration g * process the which efforts I had and placed sacrifices within which its I reach had made , and take to
that date . up They did not even deig ? i to replto one of letters . The 1 st of
y my January , came ; I needed 700 francs , —I possessed 50 . I went and knocked at door after doorand exhausted for
immediate assistance . Nothing . * I had , stooped to do prayers that for the sake of saving * my Institution from shipwreck which I had never done
for myself , and returned home with a desperate conviction that I was deceived in having * reckoned upon the local administration , and
had to hope from it no other support than that of a wall which doe If on t that actuall very y fall day , do wn t eig and ht o crush ' clock you at . night , a letter containing 1
2000 francs , which as yet was not really due to me , had not come from France by a special courier , the fruits of six months' labor would have "been lostand my Institution would be closed at the
time I write . , Providence doubtless would not permit this . I profited by the
that help public thus sent opinio ;— n the has school begun has to recognise increased it with . On such the rap 15 th idit of y January . I counted thirty-eight pupils instead of thirteen . M . le
Comte Guyot , and Monsieur Liepescheux , who on that day paid me doubtless the honor not of a forgotten visit , can the attest surprise the . which truth of they what felt I at state so m , and arvel h lous ave
a result . Why was not this visit followed up by some effective measures ? Wliy has not the Council of Administration seized a
clue so likely to lead to important results ? These gentlemen must c arr thoroug ying out _hly of aware such that an enterprise no private . fortune Will they can wait be equal until to I the am
the deadened horrible to des pain 2 _^ air , overwhelmed of an emb arrassed with annoyances positionand , suffering a future under
without hope ? , Three days ago M . Lepescheux asked me for an account of the
money I had spent on the school , and I thought that at last some idea of helping me was entertained . I knew that at the Bureau
Arahe a sum of about 16 , 000 francs ( £ 640 ) was lying idle ; I sent in I waited the account in expectation , which was . And in total now 5 to , 089 -day francs on thi , ( s ab 2 out 4 th of £ 203 January , ) and
a letter from M . Lepescheux offers , me 150 , francsen attendant the , decision of the Minister ! 150 francs ! when I have , spent 5000 !
when 1 , 500 ( £ 50 ) a month are needful to sustain the school ; and when 16 , 000 francs are lying * idle ! It would be incredible were it
not also so absurd ! I replied to M _. le Directeur de V Interieur that I could do nothing *
beg with of 150 you francs , M . , le set Directeur against General the expenses , to carry of this about matter six weeks through , and in I .
226 Madame Luce, Of Algiers.
226 MADAME LUCE , OF ALGIERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/10/
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