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    364 MADAME DE IiAMARTINE.

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    Here The it young was that coup Lamartin le started e for wrote Italy , and of rem his ained most some exquisite time . many

    poems delicate , and from here her his birth only absorbed child was her horn mother . Julia 's interest de _Laraartine in life ; ,

    Bher she was educated , at Saint Pointnear Macon ; and at six y years old the little , one could read , fluently her at father eleven ' s

    Meditations . She was cleververy sensitive ; facilit years old inheriting she could her draw moth very , paint er ' s , talent and _^ execute in both music arts . with But great her

    Communion delicacy y , of she health was was not strong such that enoug on h to the carry day her of taper her - — First the 4

    When great and which wax the tap chil child er dren which was hold about is durin on twelve that g mass day * as presented a old symbol her tothe of parents , faith cwr , . ' years

    Palestine councilled East , hoping mig by the th ht at g p ive the hysician her warm vi s , gour er decided climate . In to , the travel the spring vivid with , ; of sunshine her 1832 in they the at of

    leaving made their St . preparations Point and the for other the voyage members . Julia of the cried famil much y ; and la Comtesse de

    exclaimed Cessiat" Oh to ma her tante father ' s si sister nous , faisions Madame naufrage , et qu on

    retrouvat Parents , mon and , corps chil , d faites set , le sail enterrer from a Mars Saint eilles Point on . . " the 20 th

    manned of May , b 1832 16 , sailors in the Alceste and belong , a little ing to vessel the little of 250 port tons of ,

    board Ciotat . There Everything y were three had , been cabin most sof comfortably which the largest arranged , con on

    t Madame aining . a de libr Lamartin ary of e 500 and Julia chosen , The volumes next _^ in was size was reserved occupied for

    by trav three ellers . friends The third and Dr which . de was la . Hoy very ere small , who and accompanied lighted by the a

    narrow window on the , level of the water , had for furniture nothing but a mattress , an arm chair , and a , small table nailed

    Mediterranean to Orient the ; side here of morning he the di shi pped his p , . the Here his soft al pen the gloom The in poet the Alceste of wrote the brig Mediterranean htness is his nearing Voyage of the the en

    Archi night . pelago Let us of Greece open , but journ she . has not as yet mounted her four destined to protect herif from the pirates .

    guns , , necessary , Madame Here is " de Sunium Lamartine 's marble sits below steep , " watching where Pl over ato her discoursed daughter of _*

    absorbed the immortality in the of lovely the landscape soul . Lamartine , the poetic is walking and hilosop on deck hic ,

    associations of the scene . He call , s to Julia to come p out to himthat she too may see what lie seesbut the child does not

    answer , . We transcribe the father's own , words .

    364 Madame De Iiamartine.

    364 MADAME DE IiAMARTINE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/4/