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Marguerite, in fact, as I had found from some friends who knew of the

last circule real friend by her

bedside during the two ony

Then frouerite ing along the hich led to just such another

death Poor souls! if it is not right to love them, is it not well to

pity theht, the

deaf who has never heard the harmonies of nature, the dumb who has never

found a voice for his soul, and, under a false cloak of shame, you will

not pity this blindness of heart, this deafness of soul, this dumbness

of conscience, which sets the poor afflicted creature beside herself

and ood, of

bearing the Lord, and of speaking the pure language of love and faith

Hugo has written Marion Delorme, Musset has written Bernerette,

Alexandre Dumas has written Fernande, the thinkers and poets of all ti of their pity, and at tireat man has rehabilitated them with his love and even with his na those who have begun

to read me will be ready to thron a book in which they will fear to

find an apology for vice and prostitution; and the author's age will do

so, no doubt, to increase this fear Let o on reading, if nothing but such a fear