GEOG 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Jean-Philippe Rameau, Examining Magistrate
18 Apr 2021
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Mademoiselle source had adopted this boy under very sad circumstances. She was at the time thirty-six years old. Being disfigured through having as a child slipped off her nurse"s lap into the fireplace and burned her face shockingly, she had determined not to marry, for she did not want any man to marry her for her money. A neighbor of hers, left a widow just before her child was born, died in giving birth, without leaving a sou. She attended to the housekeeping and cooking herself, and sent out the boy on errands, letting him also occupy himself in cultivating the garden. And she experienced a deep happiness, a fresh happiness when he kissed her without surprise or horror at her disfigurement. He called her "aunt," and treated her as a mother. In the evening they both sat down at the fireside, and she made nice little dainties for him.
