Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts . arg-e a sum. Pardon, mademoiselle, replied an elderly gentleman ofvenerable appearance, who had, unobserved, mingled as a specta-tor in the scene, you will now have the means of paying itwith the prize of 5000 francs left for the reward of virtue inhumble life by the late M. Monthyon, and awarded to you by theFrench Academy, at the representations of the mayor or theeighth arrondissement of Paris. The mayor, it is jjleasing toknow, has become acquainted with your excellent filial devotionfrom the laundresses of the city now assembled. A
Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts . arg-e a sum. Pardon, mademoiselle, replied an elderly gentleman ofvenerable appearance, who had, unobserved, mingled as a specta-tor in the scene, you will now have the means of paying itwith the prize of 5000 francs left for the reward of virtue inhumble life by the late M. Monthyon, and awarded to you by theFrench Academy, at the representations of the mayor or theeighth arrondissement of Paris. The mayor, it is jjleasing toknow, has become acquainted with your excellent filial devotionfrom the laundresses of the city now assembled. A shout of joy burst from all around; and that which followedmay be left to the imagination. It will suffice to state thatBlanche, simple and modest as ever, could scarcely believe in thehonour she so unexpectedly received; while her surroundingcompanions derived from it the lesson, that the filial piety sodecidedly inculcated and rewarded by Heaven, and equallyadmirable in its effects in the cottage and the palace, does notalways go unrewarded on
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