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102 SOCIETY 'IN ALGIERS.
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Second Abticxe. Al Attempts Geria As Aga...
your idle dreams ; you are _tlie dupe of a false likeness ; take . care how you speak of an honorable man in this manner again ; go
away . " The gendarme from that time did not dare to _oj _3 en his lips . What did Jeremy Varney do with the sums of money he stole ?
This the police were never able to ascertain . Of £ 6 , 500 stolen , it ¦ was found that _£ 400 was lent to a Legitimist _depiit _^ under Louis
Philippe , a Monsieur D , and about the same sum had been expended in his household . It is supposed that he invested about
£ 5000 in some foreign country . Jeremy Varney must certainly have thought that sooner or later his theffc would be discovered ;
and no doubt he always intended to _escajDe from Algiers when some good opportunity offered . He was a married manand had a wife
, and three children at Paris , but it is certain that they received but small sums of money from him . It is very difficult to make the
populace believe in the death of any very remarkable man , and Jeremy Varney is still supposed to be living by the mass of the
people in Algeria ; they assert that he simulated death by drinking a narcotic . Several persons inhabiting Medea affirm , that the very
day of his pretended burial , they saw him and spoke with him , in the copper mine Mouzaia ; and as he was much , beloved by the
population , and because they thought he had taken the money to give it the Due d'Aumale when he left Algiers , they would not
mention this meeting to the police . Several natives who returned from Medea on a pilgriinage affirm
that they saw him in Egypt ; it is very difficult to decide , with so much conflicting evidence , whether he is alive or dead .
He had so entirely identified himself with the life and character of the true Marquisthat when he related to us the melancholy
death of his sister , we , perceived tears standing in his eyes , and when he spoke of the first duelan expression of hatred—an expression
, , of pain when he S _23 oke of his wound , —an expression of joy and triumph when he told us how he had accomplished a fraternal duty ,
and had killed his adversary ! "We could never perceive the smallest intention to disguise his life ; he was not afraid to drink almost to
the verge of intoxication , or to go to balls , dinners , or public meetings , where he was sure to encounter a crowd .
How much money he had obtained from the family of St . Amand we do not know ; but no doubt he made good use of the perfect faith
which they had in him , and received at least the regular income which belonged to the dead Marquis .
Here is a history on which novel writers might found three intensely interesting volumesfilling up the gaps with delineations
of the motives and passions which , were the springs of these curious events of which I have given a brief sketch .
If I were to g _* o on to relate all the curious crimes which I have known to be committed in Algiers and its neighborhoodI should
never have finished . It often seems as if the alleged motive , had
little or nothing to do with the act committed ; and often for the
102 Society 'In Algiers.
102 SOCIETY ' IN ALGIERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/30/
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