1248 Les Miserables
ily of six children the last of which is only eight months old.
I sick since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband
five months ago, haveing no resources in the world the most
frightful indigance.
In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has
the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect,
Mistress Balizard.
Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition
like the preceding; he read:—Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant,
Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers.I permit myself to address you this letter to beg you to
grant me the pretious favor of your simpaties and to inter-
est yourself in a man of letters who has just sent a drama to
the Theatre-Francais. The subject is historical, and the ac-
tion takes place in Auvergne in the time of the Empire; the
style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have some merit.
There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, the
serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of char-
acters, and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through
all the intrigue which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after
striking altarations, in the midst of many beautiful strokes
of brilliant scenes.
My principal object is to satisfi the desire which pro-
gressively animates the man of our century, that is to say,
the fashion, that capritious and bizarre weathervane which
changes at almost every new wind.