“I did not like to take so large a sum, but Madame Georges said to me, ‘My dear child, you both can and must accept it, as a recompense for your prudence, industry, and devotion to those who were in misfortune; for did you not run the risk of injuring your health, and probably deprive yourself of your only means of support, by sitting up all night at work, in order to make up for the time you spent in attending to others?’”
“Oh, that is quite true,” exclaimed Louise, with fervour. “I do not think there is any one upon earth who would have done all that you have done, Mademoi—Madame Germain!”
“There’s a good girl, she has learned her lesson at last! Well, I said to the elderly gentleman that I did not merit such a reward, that what little I had done was purely because it afforded me pleas
