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15 her since his father's death, and that she had besides some reason to hope to be put on that prince's list, for a yearly pension of 200 livres for life; adding, at the same time, that until this last point should be settled, which could not happen till the month of January following, she had accepted of a small apartment, which a person had offered her. But how, says I, do you propose to subsist in this apartment for two months, and perhaps more, in your sickly condition. For what purpose, (answered she, with a firmness and confidence that surprised me,) hath God brought me from among wild beasts, and made me a Christian? Not surely afterwards to abandon and suffer me to perish for hunger; that is impossible: I know no other father but him; his providence will therefore support me. This ingenuous reply compensates for the pains I have taken to compose this relation, which I shall conclude with some of her own observations with regard to the first part of her life.

She has no remembrance of her parents, or any other person, and scarcely the country itself, except that they had no houses, but holes in the ground,