Jenny Lind the Artist by Henry Scott Holland

For some few weeks after her first interview with Signor Garcia, and her subsequent entrance upon a course of regular study under his guidance, Mdlle. Lind continued to reside with Madame Ruffiaques. But she soon awoke to the conviction that a boarding-house was scarcely a fitting place for continuous and undisturbed study; and-a still more serious consideration-she found that the terms for board and lodging were too high for her slender means. It was really necessary that she should go to a cheaper and a more convenient home; but the removal was not effected without tears on either side. Madame Ruffiaques cried bitterly when she left, saying that they had all "hoped for a longer stay on her part," and "could scarcely have believed such dignity of conduct possible in a young person coming alone to Paris. " But it was indispensable that the step should be taken. Towards the close of October, therefore, she removed to the house of Mdlle. du Puget; a lady, who, though not a Swede by birth, had been educated in Sweden, was thoroughly Swedish in all her thoughts and habits, and had familiarised the French with the literature of Sweden by her excellent translations of many well-known Swedish works.

Though a pleasant, and, in many ways, a sympathetic companion, Mdlle. du Puget was not free from certain amusing peculiarities which Mdlle. Lind occasionally described with genuine good humour. In a letter to Madame Lindblad, dated, "Paris, November 26, 1841," she narrates an amusing little episode: -