couragement. Finally, before they part
she forces upon his acceptance two pounds of fillet steak. He returns
to me with the meat enveloped in a cabbage leaf, and that night we
satisfy our hunger with appetising food, and our hearts are full of
gratitude to Heaven and this good Madame Jones. And from that time,"
finished Mademoiselle holding up one hand with the sock stretched upon
it, "things mend. Madame Jones recommends Adolphe to Madame, your aunt;
she again tells others of him, and he has now, enough to do. We are
hungry no longer. It is not very gay in the appartement; the sun does
not shine much, but we are together. Some day, who knows? we may be
able to return to our dear Paris. One must have courage." She stooped
and kissed Susan's upturned face, which was full of sympathy.

"If she knew how badly I've always behaved to Monsieur she wouldn't have
done that," thought Susan penitently.

"There now rests one great wish in Adolphe's heart," continued Delphine,
"and that is, to be able some day to reward Madame Jones for her
goodness. Strangers, and without money, she fed and cheered us, and it
is to her we owe our success. Never could either of us be so basely
ungrateful as to forget that if we are again blessed by prosperity.
Often has Adolphe, who is a fine English scholar, repeated to me the
lines of your poet, Shakespeare:--

"Freeze, freeze thou winter sky;
Thou dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot."

Susan had remained wide awake in spite of great fatigue during the whole
of Mademoiselle's story; but now, when she came to the poetry, which she
repeated with difficulty and very slowly, there seemed to be something
lulling in her voice. The room was warm too, and presently the sounds
in it got mixed up together. The crackling of the fire, the bubbling of
the saucepan, and Delphine's tones, joined in a sort of lullaby.
Susan's eyelids gently closed, and she was fast asleep. So fast that
the next thing she knew was that Buskin had somehow arrived and was
carrying her upstairs; that Monsieur was in attendance with a candle,
and that a cab was waiting at the door. But having noticed this, it was
quite easy to go to sleep again, and she scarcely awoke when they
arrived at Aunt Hannah's and she was put to bed.

So it was not till broad daylight the next morning that she began to
think over her adventures, and to remember all the wonderful things that
had happened the day before. And in