have such an extraordinary figure longer in his family, constantly exposed before his wife, the girl was obliged to run away: And that at last, travelling only in the night, by the light of the moon, which she calls, the candle of the Good Virgin, she arrived in the month of September last at Songi, a village distant four miles from Chalons, the property of M. d'Epinoy, whose marriage with Madamoiselle de Lannoy, daughter of the Count de Lannoy, you have lately announced.
It is likeways certain, that before her arrival at Songi, she was seen above Vitri le François in company with a negroe girl, with whom she quarrelled, because the negroe would not allow her to adorn herself with a chaplet, which she calls a great ([1]chime:) That the savage proving strongest, the negroe left her, and had, sometime after, appeared near the village of Cheppe, not far from Songi, but was no more seen afterwards. As for our savage, having been discovered in a vineyard, skinning and eating frogs along with leaves of trees, by the shepherd of Songi, she was by him carried to the castle ofM. d'Epinoy
- ↑ This is the word in the original, and must either be obsolete French, or of Le Blanc's own inventing; for I have not been able to discover its meaning, either from dictionaries, or verbal information.
