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20 the acrimony of her parched throat, and brought back her strength. It was with all this trouble, and these narrow escapes, that Madamoiselle Le Blanc, by slow degrees, gave over her raw diet, and accustomed herself to the cooked victuals we eat, and that so entirely, that at present she has a disgust at raw flesh.

the Viscount d'Epinoy, while he lived, took great pleasure, when at Songi, in seeing his little savage; he kept her in a convent, either at Chalons, or Vitri le François. But he appears to me to have lived only a short while after she was taken, no mention being made of him in her act of baptism, tho' she was baptized seven or eight months after; and yet it is extremely probable, that if he had been alive at that time, he would have been her godfather. It is certain, however, from the information of M, de L, that after the death of M. d'Epinoy, the little Le Blanc was placed in a convent at Chalons; and that upon the first journey the widow of M. d'Epinoy made to Songi after that event, the same M. L who accompanied her, persuaded her to take the child into her own family, where she could be kept at less expence than in a convent. That Lady and M. L having accordingly made a journey to Chalons, with this intention, found Le Blanc tolerably improved, and pretty expert at several female works,