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228 MADAME UTCE, OF ALGIERSe
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* For Another Month Madame Allix Struggl...
offers me . If I liad wished to receive alins , I should have asked for theni long * ago , anc _^ - after fourteen years' sojourn in VAfrique I
should no longer have needed help from anybody , if I had so consulted my own position .
I thank you , however , Monsieur , for the promptitude with which you have informed me of this intended gift . It is a proof of interest
which _toLiches me , for which . I shall retain a profound sense of gr efficaciousl atitude . y Onl by y pressin I beg g of as you far as to prove may be this the interest settlement still of more my
business . I am about to write to my friends in Paris ; I commend my cause to their good offices , and hoping that the central
authority will understand , better than the Administration of Algiers , that in asking for the assistance of Government towards a measure of
governmental importance , I did not ask for an indemnity of 150 francs . I remain , & c .
Finally , day after day having elapsed , she wrote on the 27 th of January two notesone to the Cornte Guyotthe other to the
, , JJirecteur General . 3 f . le Comte
It is with profound , regret that I find myself forced to tell you , that from this day forth my exhausted purse will not enable me to
continue the work so laboriously begun . In the hope that assistance would be given me while the Ministre was deciding what
course to take , I have contracted ruinous _obligations , which cannot be renewed without compromising the ? welfare of my own family—a
last sacrifice , which it would be too cruel to exact from a mother . I do not know , M . le Comte , what will be the effect of this
determination on my part ; what it has cost me to come to I cannot find words to _exjDress . But as I need , to cover debts whose _jDaynient
is now pressing , an immediate sum of 2000 francs , I must warn you that if that amount is not paid to me within the next three
days , the school will be closed on the 1 st of February . The interest which you have shown to me will . _doiibtless dispose
you , in the latter event , to accelerate as much as possible a ministerial decision , which I expect with impatience , and remain , & c .
To Monsieur le Directeur General , Monsieur
I told yo _, u in a letter which I had the honor to address to you on the 24 th of this month , that I was living- upon money borrowed
at usurious interest . This is doubtless a melancholy extremity . I 3 ut what is more melancholy still is that this resource also fails me .
I have passed a part of this day in seeking money to pay past debts , and give me the means of _living while waiting the decision of
the Minister ; but all my efforts have been useless , the necessary sum of 2000 francs has almost entirely failed me ; at all events , I
could not procure it on any conditions of interest which a mother
228 Madame Utce, Of Algierse
228 MADAME UTCE , OF _ALGIERSe
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/12/
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