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362 MADAME DE LAMARTINE.
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alread her onl y y carefull child y abroad commenced , that she in Eng mig land ht comp , and lete add her a competent education ,
painting knowled land ge the which of Birches forei alread gn had y languages exceeded been intimat those to e a with of skill an the in famil amateur music of . and the In y
Marquis Eng de Lapierre , who induced them to come to Chambery , powerful disposed where the her emotions beauty to find and in there sublimity the the heart romance of of the the Al of young p life ine . scenery traveller In the aroused soirees , and
of of the a youthful Marquis M de . de Lap Lamartine ierre were , the read son certain of an manuscri old friend pt poems of the
poet famil one , by y and . one Miss always Birch into asked her greatl album for y admired them . She that the came verses she mi ni of g htl ht the y copy unknown with ythem her ,
, g moth liment er to M visit de Lamartine Madame de Lapierre his , who , told writing him to of com the - poems
; . young cop p ied , Eng and . lishwoman even illustrated who so upon them mu by ch admired drawings , them worth , y and of their who whermiht
in be beauty expected marriage . M , . he de Difficulties Lam fell artin in love e arose came with to on Miss Chambery the Bir score ch , , of and her e , asked as being g her a
. of Protestant the ; and irl thoug who alread h Lamartine loved had him influenced insomuch the that mind she y
was willing young to g enter the Catholic Church , , Mrs . Birch refused her consent to such a change .
M . de Lamartine returned home to Macon , but shortly after and again some met account the Lapierres of his and courtshi the Eng p is lish given ladies by at him Aix as -les follows -Bains , :
the friends " I was Marquise , lod and ging I de went , " Lap says there ierre he , almost was " at an a every house excellent _evening not far and . from p The ious landlord that old of man my in of ,
named M . Perret _, who , to increase his small income , and gain during summer the the season necessary , and winter kept a comforts reasonabl , let e pension off furnished , managed rooms by
his two sisters . This simple and worthy old man , whose stranger garret ascetic , life chiefl to was all y occup written the bustl ied in b e y his of prayer face a lod , . passed ing He -house dwelt his solitary like there a , hermit days an utter in in a
his cellin the midst of worldly g noise which , did not reach his renounced ear . , He the was priesthood a veritable , and saint who , passed who had his from life , inwardl modesty God y
wonders withdrawn in , creation between . contemp The hol lation man and was the a botanist study . of He was ' s to be seen morningafter y having heard massmounting
the latforms steep . lanes every He walked of Aix , along wh , ich without lead to his the hat hi portfolios ghest , mountain tucked
under p his arminsect-nets in his handmurm , uring in a low , ,
362 Madame De Lamartine.
362 MADAME DE LAMARTINE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/2/
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