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It was conceived as follows:—
Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety
is that which most closely unites sosiety. Turn your Chris-
tian spirit and cast a look of compassion on this unfortunate
Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment to the sacred cause
of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, consecrated
his fortune, evverything, to defend that cause, and to-day
finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that
your honorable person will grant succor to preserve an ex-
istence exteremely painful for a military man of education
and honor full of wounds, counts in advance on the human-
ity which animates you and on the interest which Madame
la Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer
will not be in vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs
charming souvenir.
My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be
M a d a m e ,
Don Alvares, Spanish Captain
of Cavalry, a royalist who
has take refuge in France,
who finds himself on travells
for his country, and the
resources are lacking him to
continue his travells.
No address was joined to the signature. Marius hoped to
find the address in the second letter, whose superscription
read: A Madame, Madame la Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue
Cassette, No. 9. This is what Marius read in it:—
Madame la Comtesse: It is an unhappy mother of a fam-

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