Remember! that I was not a noble aristocrat...

a Duchess or an impoverished Countess..." she added with marked bitterness, "or perhaps the English cavaliers whom the popular voice has called the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel would have taken some interest in me.

I was only a poor actress and had to find my way out of France alone, or else perish on the guillotine." "I am so sorry!" said Marguerite simply.
"Tell me how you got on, once you were in England," she continued after a while, seeing that Desiree Candeille seemed absorbed in thought.
"I had a few engagements at first," replied the Frenchwoman.

"I played at Sadler's Wells and with Mrs.Jordan at Covent Garden, but the Aliens' Bill put an end to my chances of livelihood.

No manager cared to give me a part, and so..." "And so ?" "Oh! I had a few jewels and I sold them....