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MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS. 227
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* For Another Month Madame Allix Struggl...
ft a worthier mannerone more level with , my personal sacrifices ; more efficacious for , the , work of regeneration which . I have
embraced . The number of my pupils is to-day forty-six , all of whom I must
feed and partly clothe / I have besides this , native sub-mistresses , house emp one loy for , besides the Twent Arabic , - two five language _negresses ils beg , for and in the to two read kitchen others and and write for the needlework both service in Arabic of . the I
which and in . I French have put ; y and into all pup their exercise hands the . needle Some on native different their families kinds hters of of a woVk hi and gh rank have made overtures to me regarding daug ; musicAssuredl
in one case I have even been asked to teach . y this and of is progress a sufficientl _siifficientl important y marked nature to for m the ake State all he to sitation feel justified cease ,
in adopting it for y its own . I need not say that I cannot any longer go on by myself ; you know of it alread the Administration y . But what will in thus best
leaving until convince now me you I have to of support refrained the cowardliness so from heavy making a burden but , is which the at avowal last , I which must
confide to you—that I am forced to raise money , at usurious interest , for want of a sum of 2000 francs , which it -would have been so
easy I will to advance add nothing for the to school these ! last words . I have faith in your to
noble intelligence , and I anxiously await a decisive answer as the fate reserved for me . remain &
I . have the honor to , c . eloquent I feel indi that gnation my translation of the remarkable ill-represent woman s the terse who langu penned age these and
elegant and following French letters language . In the acquires hands a of decisive Madame ring Luce who which the polite is quite and and
extraordinary limented ; her and on her one efforts wonders but that would the not men ive her any cam effectual e comp aidwere not shamed out of , their inactivity g by her vivid and
qualifications sonorous , periods of a . great The general art of and writin in g looking despatches over is a collection one of the of
And papers its referring foundress to summing the commencement up her , efforts of and this her Moorish requirement school , s we in similar
double such strong powers and . simp Hear le her words rep as ly prove to M . Lepescheux that she possessed , on his offer of
the 150 francs : — Monsieur The letter , which you have done me the honor to to writ the e Al , clearly
_Administration proves , either that or else I that have that ill-exp bod lained y is determined myself not to compre gerine - ,
_hend _speaking Whichever my , posi accept tion of these the . 150 two francs hypotheses which be M correct . le Directeur , I cannot de , VInUrieur _honorably
Madame Luce, Of Algiers. 227
MADAME LUCE , OF ALGIERS . 227
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/11/
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