![]() ![]() He was one day present when an old friend called on her, and presented an order for forty dollars, thinking her husband had left the money with her, and by no means divining her state of destitution. Toussaint entered into all her feelings, and shared her perplexities and though he had scarcely passed boyhood, he began a series of devoted services. The constant application for debts unpaid was most distressing to her but she had no means of paying them, and she could only beg applicants to wait, assuring them that she should eventually have ample means. ![]() ![]() She was rich in her own right, as well as her husband’s, and we said, ‘O madam! you will have enough.’”īut this present state of depression was hard indeed to one who had always lived in luxury. “Ah!” said Toussaint, “it was a sad period for my poor mistress but she believed-we all believed-that she would recover her property in the West Indies. Madame Bérard had not recovered from this terrible shock, when the failure of the firm in New York to whom her property was entrusted, left her destitute. This letter was soon followed by another, announcing his sudden death by pleurisy. His property was irreclaimably lost and he wrote that he must return, and make the most of what he had placed in New York. Melancholy letters arrived from Monsieur Bérard. ![]()
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