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Updated: May 12, 2025
Writing on the 8th of October in the same year, after speaking at great length of Madame Laffarge, and of the extraordinary interest her trial excited, dividing all Paris into Laffargists and anti-Laffargists, and almost superseding war as a general topic of conversation, she passes to the then burning subject of the fortification of Paris, and writes as follows curiously enough, considering the date of her letter:
When the jury who tried Madame Laffarge for the murder of her husband, returned a verdict of guilty, with that recommendation to mercy which is implied by the words “des circonstances attenuantes,” Alphonse Karr pronounced the “extenuating circumstances,” to be the fact, that she always mixed gum with the arsenic, and never gave him his poison “neat.”
We are a great nation, and nowhere is our greatness more conspicuous than in the education of our youth. The young Frenchman seems to fulfil his destiny, when, having drawn on a pair of the most tight-fitting kid gloves, of that precise shade of colour so approved of by Madame Laffarge, he saunters forth on the Boulevard de Gand, or lounges in the coulisse of the opera.
The genus of Pigeon and Laffarge claims it for its own only that our heroine takes a far higher class by not requiring the vulgar matter of fact of crime to develop her full powers. It is an affront to Becky's tactics to believe that she could ever be reduced to so low a resource, or, that if she were, anybody would find it out.
"My words drove her to frenzy. "'Beware! she exclaimed, taking a step toward me, and putting her hand into her bosom. "'Beware! I said, with a laugh, 'beware of what, my dear Madam Laffarge? "'Of this! "And with a movement as rapid as lightning she drew from her breast a small silver-mounted pistol, which she aimed straight at my breast. "I was not in a mood to care much for pistols, Surry.
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