Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-05-11

tor returned, taking with him the little girl who
had been almost miraculously saved from death.
When he reached the door some men were just
bringing out two coffins to be placed in hcarse,
which stood in the street The doctor and his
protege ascended the stairs, entered the parlor
and proceeded to another room, without seeing
anybody or hearing any noise. A deathly ST.
lence pervaded the whole house. But Esther in
the greatest alarm pushed open door and led
the way to the room where she and her twelve
sisters had slept together. The door was open,
but four beds alone occupied the room, and two
of these were empty. On the Others lay two OF
the far-haired twins, and by their side stood
Madame Domergue looking at them if stupihed.
Esther with an underlined dread Of something
fightful rushed up to her mother and threw her
arms around her. But as soon as Madame d.
mergue saw her, she threw her from her, then
seized her again and would have torn her to
pieces if the doctor had not snatched her from
her grasp. As it was, the poor child's face was
all scratched and bloody, and she tainted almost
Immediately.
why do you bring her here! cried Madame
Domcreue. She is the cause of all my misfor
tune There lie the only two have left Take
the little demon away Or will kill her in spite
Of YOU
Almost frozen with horror, the doctor answer
cd not word, but bore the insensible and bleed
ing child from the room, out Of the house, and
placed her in carriage which lie saw passing
and stopped. He ordered the coachman tedrive
to an obscure little street where lived, in the
most humble manner, the doctors venerable
mother. She received the unhappy child, gave
her all necessary relief, and installed her in
small room near her own.
f was as Madame Domergue had sa;d in
three weeks ten Of her idolized daughters had
fallen victims to the terrific disease, and the day
after the doctors second visit the other two died,
and We're buried like their sisters. A few days
more, ais! h, mother herself followed, and when
the doctor, hearing of it, returned, he found that
house, once 50 noisy with young voices, and so
full Of the joy and pride Of large family, silent
rs the tomb, occupied only by 4 reniatureIy old
man, left alone in the world and PROSTATE with
his grief A few months afterwards, Mr.. Do
ncTyue died in hopeless insanity.
Esther, brought up under the mothcrly care
Of Madame Soulic, buddcd into womanhood as
lovely young ,r,atecas could possibly be seen.
When III her ci;,hteenth year she became the wife
Of the docto, who was now beginning to be
known in the world. anA she made --licr- appear
lnce in the salons of Paris and was for years
The most admired woman of the time. She be-
came the lrcther of fi:e chidren-tour sons and
onc daughtcr- whom she brought up and educa-
catc,l to b. an honor TO herself and ornaments
t. tie ,:c;r II wl:rh they lived DIR. Soullc
b ~: i. TIM. ., uf thr physicians Of the court
/, L.... ~: ... Shcn the political troubles
B. -. q, a.ra. 80, b., unfortunately, wrote Il
g,... .,-, .: .:.g 3: Il. court, and thu, became
:. .,e...::.d u.aG. /. liz Ill II 1892, al 'hrcc
-. -, ~" '..vai:,, ija reol lc torciby entered
lyr. >guii> > h,u,e. dragged him and his two e-
le>t sons from their beds, and in spite OF the
PRAYERS and entreatics Of the poor wife and moth
er carried them off 1t was nearly week be-
fore Madame Soulic could hear any news Of her
loved ones, and thcn-they had already been
dead four days-thc guillotinc had done It's
work for them. Madame Soulie clasped her
three remaining children in her arms, two boys
of seventeen and eighteen, and a girl OF fifteen
years Of age. Bnt as she strained them to her
in the agony Of her grief, fresh trouble was pre-
pairing for her Her sons vowed within them
selves to revenge the murder of their father and
others. 1t would take too long to narrate all
the circumstances which followed: but these
two young men placed themselves at the head
Of conspiracy against the government, and one
year precisely from the day on which she had
learned the death of her husband and two eldest
boys, Madame Soulic received j short note, as
follows:
CoNcIERG ERIE, Thursday noon. Mother
Dear Mother: We have conspired against the
yovenment-we have been betrayed and arc to
lie tomorrow. Bear it bravely, mother; We die
for our father and our brothers.
HENRI Er FICIoR.
What words can describe the despair of that
poor mother? At first she prayed God to take
her life or her rcasop.-But ray Of hope dawn
cd upon her-Shc might, perhaps, save her
boys the tribunal which had condemned them
could not be deaf to mothers prayer-amoth
ors despair. But alas Madame Soulie little
knew the men upon whose compassion the count
ed, In vain she salpiicated, in vain she prayed;
they ended by refusing to listen to her any len
rer. She did all that could possibly be done to
save her boys from death; she even after the cX-
ample of Madame Chalais, tried to bribc the ex
ecutioncrs. But they accepted her money and
then betrayed her. Finding all her efforts USE
less, she tried to resign herself, and determined,
as she could not obtain her sons lives, at Least
to get permission to aid them to die This was
with great difficulty granted her, but at last she
received it, and couple of hours before the exc
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