A SILENT WOMAN.
In a popular novel a woman is into ducecl who, being mortally offended, (if clared she would never speak agaii Critics pronounced the incident unnatuis and impossible.- ' It was neither ; for hen we have the fact on winch the incideC was founded. M"dame Rignier, theffli' of a law officer at Versailles, while taUA? in the presence of a numerous parij dropped some-remarks which were out & place, though not important. Her lflj band rejjrimanded her before the wlw company, saying, ".Silence, Madame; }'<?• are a fool!" The lady immediately sub sided.. She lived twenty or thirty yeaj afterwards, and never uttered a sing* word to any living soul, not even to to children. " A pretended theft was col' mitted in her presence in the hope <" taking her by surprise, but without eifed nothing could induce her to speak. Whet her consent was recpiisite for the of any of her children, she bowed her lie* and signed the contract ; and even ffh» she died she merely signed." Adieu!"
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 100, 16 August 1876, Page 2
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168A SILENT WOMAN. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 100, 16 August 1876, Page 2
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