sehold."

"Does your friend take boarders?" asked Rachel, quickly.

"Not as a rule, as far as I know. You will thus find it more expensive
than at an ordinary _pension;_ but I am almost certain that both Mr. and
Mrs. Barnett, who is a French lady, are the sort of people you will
like. And it is exactly in the American society of Paris that you will
have the best opportunity of finding employment if you wish for it. At
any rate, you can stay some time in Mr. Barnett's house, until you find
something else you prefer."

His tone was deliberate and decided, as if he already regarded the
matter as finally settled; and when Rachel got up to take her leave she
found that her mind was already made up, without being conscious of how
she had arrived at her conclusion. She looked forward to a new and more
active life, with mingled feelings of expectation and pleasure. But at
the same time she was somewhat hurt--no, not hurt, but sad--no, not
exactly sad, either; but she could not help thinking it was
extraordinary, that he should show himself so eager to get her away.

Jacob Worse followed her to the door leading into the street, but when
she had gone he did not go back to the office, but crossed over the yard
to his mother's.

A month later, Gabriel and Rachel set off under the escort of old
Svendsen; Gabriel to Dresden, and Rachel to Paris. Madeleine also
quitted Sandsgaard. Her intended had arranged, with the assistance of
the doctor, that she should go to the baths of Modum, where Martens's
mother, who was the widow of a clergyman from the east coast, was to
take care of her.

Uncle Richard was utterly confounded when he heard Madeleine was going
to marry a clergyman, and he had a kind of dim feeling that he would
have done better to have kept her under the observation of the big
telescope. But the old gentleman, who had never been very strong-minded,
had become still more feeble in his sorrow, and now that he could no
longer go to Christian Frederick for advice, he gave way in everything.

As for Madeleine herself, the exhaustion which followed her illness had
produced a feeling of indifference; and now that the important step had
once been taken, she allowed herself to be led without offering any
opposition, and did not find it disagreeable, when the pastor took upon
himself to think and act for her in everything. But when it came to
saying good-bye to her father she gave way, and was carried senseless to
the carriag