Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-02-05
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Romance Of Real Life.
THE BEGGAR's DAUGHTER.

The intelligent Paris correspondent of
the st. Louis Republican, gives us the
following sprightly sketch of a new ac-
tress, who is about to make her debut in
Paris, and who is creating an immense
sensation beforehand, on account of her
beauty and accomplishments.
The lady is about thirty years of age,
but her life has already been varied
enough to suit the most greedy romanccr,
First. abandoned by her mother in the
streets of Paris, she begged her bread
from door to door. and slept wherever
she could find a shelter, until by force Of
begging and economising, she purchased
an old second.handed guitar, and with
that she went about singing half Il dozen
of the most popular songs, in every court
yard Of the great city. Her youth, for
she WAS only thirteen years of age, and
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countenance favored her greatly, and
sou; and often silver pieces fell in shcw.
ers at her feet wherever she sang. She
had small room in the sixth story Of 4
house in one of the most popular quar-.
tiers Of the city and there she lived
quietly alone, coming home rs soon as it
was dark, and going out early in the
morning TO follow her business One
evening, about six months after she com
mcnccd The street singing, she was sitting
in her little room, studying YER the words
Of new song, when she thought she
heard groan in tie next room to her.
She did not know her rcighbors atall,
in ecd had never seen either, but she got
up and went out, and knocked at the
door of the room, from whence she now
distinctly heard the groans repeated.
There was no answer. The little girl
ran to the stairs and called for help, but
few people pay any attention to cries that
came from the sixth story, and the child
waited in vain for some one to come.
When she found she was not heard, she
returned to the door. aud turning the
knob found that it yielded, and a moment
after she was in the room, but in comp plete
darkness. She ran back to her own room,
got light, and returned, when sight
met her eyes, such as ever, she, who was
accustomed to misery, had never seen.
The oder of the room in thc first place
was almost insupportable; piles Of rotten
vegetables and old bones lay promiscu.
ously strewn about the floor, and in one
corner on band of damp straw, lay ar
old woman groaning in pain. The child
went to her and spoke to her, whercupon
the old hag started as if she had been
bitten, but Immediately turned her face
to the wall again. The little girl think
ing she was very i'll, left the room and
went herself for doctor; he came, and
disgusted with the appearance of the
room and oder, declared he could do
nothing until the patient was removed to
better place; but the old woman swore
she would die where she was, and all re-
monstrances were vain. The doctor,
therefore, prescribed as we'll as he could,
but the next day the old woman died but
before her death she questioned the little
girl about her former life, and finally re-.
vealed to her that she was watching over
the death-bed Of hor own mother: and
that she had amasscd small sum Of
money, which her daughter would find
in the straw. After the old woman's
body was taken from the house, accord
ingly, the young girl searched, and found
an old petticoat; in which was found no
less sum than 5000 francs, in gold anc
silver. All this the old woman had 60
by begging and by picking and search
ing in the streets. Her daughter, upor
finding herself possessor of such for
tune, placed the greater portion of it ii
the savings bank, and then placed her
self in good boarding school, where he
intelligence soon developed itself, and a
seventeen years of age she was the mos
accomplished, and by far the most beau
tiful girl in the school.
II had always been her intention, whel
she had finished her education, to go OF
the stage, but alta soircc given by the mis-