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Excerpt from Sketches of Travel in the Old and New World
When a little girl, she was picked up in the streets of Paris, half dead with cold and hunger; now she is crowned with gifts from kings and queens. Few women are so distinguished, but she, like all persons of genius, has enemies, and the tongue of slander fol lows her, even in her wanderings for health.
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