The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-24
MISS EUGENE ARIGASEI.
c. o. Mrs. s. Z Townsend.
81 y. Main st..
Paterson n j.

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SSma VITA sht sR Sa1 She nG
WHAT Ste N a Wn am air Of ana ans
ness. When Sun. reporter called on her yes;
ssfk SnSs hoy aeF was
knee. She seemed somewhat surprised when
h new ssns shsd r ssE hs she n
s shs snd ri Re her and was
fond Of her How did you find out that knew
.,some letters were found among her effects
They must have been some she received
when she was visiting me here, year ago
last when she ILL., she here
fever and was very miserable Mt the time,
p,oI Ri o. she eyer say anything about Mr.. NJ
"sho worked for Mrs. Field for a number Of
Srs s adn ddnt III Ike Be mn
a largo house with SO many servants. She
Sf q and
Mr. Rs RpSGr sGffk9 about any relations with
name at ali. She often SPOKE about Mrs Field.
Sic never r SHOWED ts Slightest interest In NJ
Field. once asked her what sort OF q man
ooEns an s and she Of h%
She had a very sad AND, troubled lie, for
sph s fGSSa shs .
1knew her And one night when she was visit
ing me here and feeling especially miserable on
Haccount OF her fever. she told me all about her
It WAS two years ago last May that ! first
paper for some friend OF hers, French girl
who had Just come one to this country It was for
answered. %SG the advertisement 's and Eusonie
Arigaset came TO my house here In q hack to
was attrSstsd to bsr im@sa Sis aha
50 pleasantly and was 20 Interesting that she
the city; Then saw. her again with, the friend
Of hers that wanted the place; didn't care so
much for tho friend and didn't take her.
though she also WAS u respectable nicc-look-
s Alter Ihad become acquainted with Eu-
sss%sd e !its ns: y aId Ter %Sen MI wsa s
And when went up to Nyack on the Hudson
Snsinsss there. she came over from irviucton.
think It was. and visited us.
shi . wso snd t. .se
bs SSsa
Paterson as%sf and stay here with mo- That was in
S6ne night while she was, here she WAS feel
ready to cry. She began talking about her
little boy that had died, and she showed me
his picture. She said that he would be almost
six years old then II he had lived.
Why. didn't know you were married.
'"' I'm not she said. She blushed and
, see% a,s very ouch ashamed Then she told
:ss sviy gsn s,4 ssss
had died whom she was o child and her father
married again. He was cruel and unkind to
her. She found work somewhere abroad and
saved up enough money to come to this coun-
try with. When she arrived here. she said. she
had only a dollar left She managed to find a
place with some woman to whom sho taught
French In return for her board. Then she got
one or two other people to take French les
cons from her, and that's the way she came to
find Mrs. Field. Mra Field was one OF those
she gave lessons to. That was about twelve
years ago. think In 1870.
Soon afterward Mrs. Field offered her q
place In her house rs seamstress. and she went
there regularly to live. About four years after
ward whom sho had had time to save up some
money. she made up her mind to go back to
France She never liked living out In fam
lily, as she often used to- say to me. and per-
haps she became homesick for her own coun-
try ,., .,. ,o. =, .,o s.o...,
she arrived on the other side. am not sure
which. she met young Frenchman named
DuyaL and fell In love with him; He loved her
and wanted TO marry her: but his father. who
was o. very rich man. Threatened TO cut him on
II he did 30. After while trouble came to her.