e was a very quiet girl, but she was always ready to do
something to please her dear mother, and at night brought her father's
slippers from the closet, and placed them ready by his chair. She did,
too, many little things for the servants, who all loved her very dearly;
so when, a few years afterwards, she fell sick, and nothing they could
do for her was able to make her any better, but the doctor said she must
die, they all wept very much, and no comfort or joy could come into
their hearts. But Genevieve gently kissed them, and told them a
beautiful peace had come into her heart, for that, in the night, Christ
often came to her, and told her how the angel was all ready to take her
into his beautiful garden, and teach her out of his great golden books.

At last, one morning she died, and they laid her away in the garden near
by the fountain; and they planted the mignonette and myrtle, that,
mingling with the moss, it might grow over her grave.

And her mother said in her heart, "Let her lie here, that, as often as I
come hither, I may be reminded of the more beautiful gardens of God, to
which she has flown. And when, in the cool night, the stars look down,
the soft fragrance of the mignonette shall tell them of her loveliness,
and the myrtle and the moss of the constant love twining together the
souls of the mother and the daughter."

It was as Christ had said; the angel stood ready, and when Genevieve
closed her eyes in death, he caught her in his arms, and placed her
before the Great Gate, which led into the gardens around the kingdom of
heaven. A great many men, women and children stood about it, waiting for
it to be opened, when suddenly a very bright angel, brighter than any
she had ever seen in her dreams, came among them, seated on glorious
clouds.

Then one by one did the crowd go before him, telling him what things
they had done on earth, in order to be admitted into the gardens, to be
prepared still more for the heavens. One said he had built a large
college, given it a large sum of money, and called it by his name, that
the world might see his works, and praise the Lord. Another told him how
he had toiled in heathen lands, and dwelt among savages, that they might
know and love God; another that he had prophesied; another that he had
built a hospital for the poor, and had sheltered them from the cold
winds; another still that he had delivered slaves from cruel masters,
and brought them to the light of freed