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MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS. 229
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* For Another Month Madame Allix Struggl...
could accept , and I find myself obliged to put an end to expenses which I write have this alread day y to plunged Mle Comt me in e Guyot mortal that embarrassm if these e 2000 nts . francs
institution are not paid on to the me 1 st before of . February the end . of It the is , a month very , sad I shall endin close g' to six exhausted
months of laborof effortsof sacrifices , and of private But I , cannot hel , it unless I consent to forfeit my whole
future resources welfare . andwhile bitterl p y regretting" this frightful pecuniary necessityI can , onl , y bow niy head and submit .
, full But lavished neither prayers the nor Administration rebukes , both , of produced which were any thus appreciable
plentihoused effect y . fed She and could upon clothed get no "without money it , , and and fort so y at pup last ils , on could the not 1 st be of
following February , , letter 1 , , from the school the Administration was closed . On . the 4 th she received the
Bureau de l'lnterieur et des Travaux Publiques February 4 t 7 i _, 1846 .
Madame Bur , letter of the 28 th of January last , you informed me of y yo
for your the intention education to of close the Moorish school which irls if you the have Administration recently opened did young g the of 2000 francs
not at once come to your aid by allotting sum quite ( £ I 80 deep . ) impossible ly regret to , . Madame dispose , of to so be large obliged a sum to inform without you the that express it is
authority of the Minister of War . I saw I have in the learnt beginning your had of sudden your alread school determination the called germ the with of b a enevolent most lively valuable regrets atten .
institution tion of his ; al Excellency to which ositions I ; and . in I was its y about favor once- to to make the , Conseil in a short _Superieicr time - , some speciprop
d \ 4 dministration . Receive * Madame , the' assurance of my profound respect , and
believe me , to remain , & c . & c . The _Dieector of the Intebieur .
On the back of the letter Madame Luce has endorsed the following note : " That which the Administration did not dare to attempt , lished
with all the means at its disposal , I accompupon my private _resoiirces To-day , this onl 1 y 2 , th with of Jul faith y , 1854 and the , nine will fruit year that of s overcam after labors my e foundation all appropriates obstacles , the .
even Government ideas , which and profits by hraseswhich my they , print in the Moniteur my their my ! And very that p without , any compensationnay
even while as diminishing own my salary and restricting the sphere of , my
action u The . Administration Oh , justice of men which ! refused to accept the responsibility of
Madame Luce, Of Algiers. 229
MADAME LUCE , OF ALGIERS . 229
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/13/
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