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    MADAME SWETCHINEo 383

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    but gathered a few people about a small round table , to tlie plenishroom ing of was which she to attended her friends with strict morning personal and evening care . Her and drawing usually

    friends containe , d or some open by artists plant glad in flower so to , exhibit or some their object works of . art , She lent broug her by ht until

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    little accessible to the influence of one of their own sex . Her individual of brown toilette stuff from was which simple she and never invariable departed , consisting ; but her of a taste costume in

    dress , as in all other things , was fine and sure , and she liked to see * They young used in ladies review to come who before to moved her her at indul ni in ght general gent , when and society read sympathising y for elegantl their " y balls eyes attired , , and and *

    then pass enthusiasm at her , in side the , telling morning with which her , the their her very secrets biograp sam , e and young her ob , ey the peop ing the Count her le confidence would advice de be F . alloux found with The ,

    which dwells he on describes her singular her widel facult y y extended of sympathy social , influence , are very woman singular who . "Who neither in wrote England nor ever spoke heard for the of public Madame ; yet Swetchine no sooner , is a

    channel she dead , run than at two once thick throug volumes h three , published editions ; on and the attest other by side a wail of the of

    lamentation , that a _soiil especially dear to and reverenced by her fellow divided The -beings way into , in three has which been parts she summoned . divided She reserved from her day their the was morning midst as . follows exclu : sivel it y was to lihtAt eiht

    herself , but the morning began for her before dayg . g

    Madame Swetchineo 383

    MADAME _SWETCHINEo 383

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/23/