A Heroine of Conjugal Lover, Madame de La Fayette [pp. 781-794]

A HeIoine of Conjugal Love.
renewed if found expedient. My
guide called to him child after child,
and talked with them as he might
talk with his own children at home.
One little thing cried bitterly. Her
mother had turned her into the streets
to shift for herself, and the police,
finding her wandering about the city,
had brought her to Saint Lazare.
He held her little hand in his and
patted it softly as he said all the comforting things he could think of;
there was not much to be said, one
must confess. I asked where she
would be sent when the six months
were out. "To some industrial establishment under the charge of Sisters of Charity," was the answer;
"The empress sees to all such
things."
The young people are kept entirely
separate from the prisoners, in the
new part of Saint Lazare. They
have several hours' schooling, and
have their working hours, in which
they earn money for themselves and
for the establishment, as the women
do. Each child has an exquisitely
neat cell to herself for the night,
opening with a grating on to a corridor, so that the watching sister can
exercise a strict surveillance.
Whenever I see the right thing
done in the right way for public
offenders, I think of the man who
first turned my attention to the subject of prison discipline-Governor
Andrew, as he will be to us all in
Massachusetts, no matter who holds
the state reins. Surely the sun has
not often shone on any spirit more
steadfast or more tender than his;
surely, the days of chivalry produced
no knightly courage more unblenching than his; surely, whatever blessings come to Massachusetts in her future career, her children will never
forget how valiantly that brave man
fought for judicious legislation, for a
humane execution of the laws, and for
the equal rights of Catholics and
Protestants-will never forget John
Albion Andrew!
TRANSLATED FROM LE CORRESPONDANT.
A HEROINE OF CONJUGAL LOVE.
MARQUISE DE LA FAYETTE.
WHEN, at the end of the year i864,
the children of Madame de Montagu, having overcome the natural scruples of filial modesty, consented to
open to the public the treasure of
noble examples and Christian virtues
enclosed in the remembrances of
their mother, Le Correspondant was
the first among the public organs to
announce the lively interest felt in
the recital. The success more than
justified our predictions. There is
no one who would not be edified by
the perusal of the life of Madame
de Montagu, and the book has already taken its place in our libraries.
Since that publication, the Duchess
of Ayen, around whom are grouped
five daughters widely differing from
each other, and each with a strongly
marked individuality, has become
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