The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-12-30

coister, this mode of bringing her up in such total
seclusion and ignorance was almost cruel but
Pierre answered that he could give her good for
tune, and would take to secure good husband
for her and her perfect purity and innocence were
so beautiful, that the kind hearted but unwse
ecclesiastic did not insist farther.
In the meantime she grew apace and her mother
being dead Marie lived be fore with her father,
whose affection only increased with his years, both
Of them apparently thinking that the world went
on as they did themselves, unchanged in single
idea. Alas we know not what day may bring
forth, even when we have an opportunity OF seeing
and hearing all that passes around us. Pierre and
Marie were scarcely aware of the commencement
of the Revolution until it was at It's height - he
marquis, his son, and the good priest massacred--
madame escaped to England-and the property d.
vded, and in possession of others Of very differ
ent stamp from his late kind patron, a model OF
,uavitY and grace of manner even in that capital
which gave laws Of politeness to the rest Of Eu-
rope. All this came like clap Of thunder upon
the astonished Pierre and although he continued
10 live in his old cottage, he never more held up his
head. Finally he became quite childish, and one
day died sitting in his chair, his last words being
" Mariehis last action pointing tn the little figure
Of the Virgin. When his DEATH however, became
known, the proprietare desired that the cottage
should be vacated, and came himself to look after
its capabilities He aslOnished at the innocent
beauty Of the youthful Marie, but not sOftened by
1t for his bold coarse admiration, and loud inso-
snt manner terrified the gentle reCluse, that az
soon as it was dark she made a bundle of her
cOthes and taking the little image in her hand,
went forth, like Eve from Paradise, though, alas
not into world without inhabitants. Terrified TO
u degree which no one not brought up as she had
been, can form the least idea Of, but resolved to
dare any thing rather than meet that bold, bad man
again, she plunged into the increasing gloom, and
wandered, weared and heart broken, she knew not
whittier, until, hungry and tired, she could go no
farther. She lay down, therefore, at the foot of
tree, with her head on her bundle, and the Virgin
in her hand, and soon fell asleep.
She was awakened from dream of former days
by rough hands, and upon regaIning her reColleC-
ton, found that some had snatched the bundle
from beneath her head, and that nothing remained
to her but the little image, associated in her mind
with that happy childhood to which her present
destitute and rlendless condition formed terrible
contrast. The sneers, and in the in
suits oi the passers-by, terrified her to such de-
gree, that, regardless of consequences, she pene-
trated further INTO the Bois de Boulogne when at
length weak, and indeed quite exhausted, from
want Of food, she sank down, praying God to
let her die, and take her to Heaven She waited
patiently for some time, hoping and more than
half expecting, that what she had aske-j= :, ear
nestly would be granted to her. AbC-hour
passed, and Marie, wondering in her siL= 5aith
That she was sun alive, repeated her applications
uttering them in her distraction in a loud tone of
voice Suddenly she fancied she heard sounds OF
branches breaking and the approach of footsteps,
and filed with the utmost alarm lest it might be
some of those much dreaded men who had derided
aad insulted her. she attempted to rise and fy .
but her weakness was so great that after few
steps she fell!
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friends ~
8" have no home, no friend but God and want
TO 90 to Him. Oh, my God, let me die let me
" You are too young to die yet you have maay
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humble furniture. where thew Iiv9d from hand IN
mouth Marie taking in coarse sewing. and her
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trade.
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seldom any fire; and when their first child was
born their troubles, of course materially increased
ard Auguste often returned from weary ramble
all over Paris just as he had set out-without hav-
iog gained a solitary sou. The cross soon followed
lne earrings, and they had now nothing left that
lucy could part with except the little plaster figure
5" 3iten aiIhded to, which wonId not bring frame,
ana which was loved and cherished by Marie as
tle sole remaining object connected with BOulOln-
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