This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...I joined in all the games of my youth. On Sundays we went to dance, to run, and to play at prisoner's base in the open meadows." She had a dispute with the village miller because, as she thought, he charged too much for his flour, but he answered her rudely when she spoke to him about it, and she could not get him to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...I joined in all the games of my youth. On Sundays we went to dance, to run, and to play at prisoner's base in the open meadows." She had a dispute with the village miller because, as she thought, he charged too much for his flour, but he answered her rudely when she spoke to him about it, and she could not get him to look at the matter from the people's point of view. She also thought it wrong of the cure to accept an income for his work whilst his parishioners were practically starving. But, because she had known him in the days of her childhood, she wrote a letter to Perregaux begging him to send a hundred crowns that he might distribute it amongst the poor, and then she changed her mind, and ordered the amount to be spent in warm underclothing, because the curi would not accept a gift of money. She had not forgotten any of her old friends, and never grew tired of telling stories about the wonderful things she had seen and done in the Revolution. "She boasted of having prevented the Queen from leaving France, and showed proudly a fragment of one of her diamond necklaces," says De Goncourt. "She gathered the young men together, questioned them closely, taught them the revolutionary ideas and songs that were in vogue in Paris, and spread the spirit of revolt around her." If it be true that she did any of these things she was very careful not to say so. The reference to the Queen's necklace may be regarded as absurd. The jewels she had in her possession were her own. After staying in Marcourt for a month, Theroigne left there to go to Liege, where her brother Pierre was awaiting her arrival. The regret she felt at saying good-bye to the friends of her early youth was counterbalanced by the hope of continuing her musical studies at Li...
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