Orphans of the Storm

LILLIAN AND DOROTHY GISH AS THE TWO ORPHANS IN D. W. GRIFFITH’S ORPHANS OF THE STORM. Frontispiece .
Made in the United States of America
Copyright 1922 BY HENRY MacMAHON
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ORPHANS OF THE STORM

In all the countryside of Evreux, nay in all the beauteous old-time Normandy of the period of 1789, there were no lovelier filles du peuple than Henriette and Louise Girard.
Their romantic story was often whispered by country gossips. In infancy foundlings on the church steps of Notre Dame, then brought to this quiet Norman backwater by the Girards and raised as sisters, they had lost both their protectors by death. The same visitation of the dread plague had cost poor little Louise her eyesight.
Since the orphaning and especially since the blindness of Louise, Henriette cared for her with a love overwhelming as that of a mother for her helpless baby. She looked forward eagerly to the day when they 2 might leave the kinswoman’s where they were staying and go to Paris.
A local doctor had imparted a precious ray of hope.