Have you enough of the gift of charity to come and carry out my wishes before it is too late ?" 'Now so it was that, since seeing him possess himself of the broken cake, she had insensibly begun to feel something that was more than curiosity, though perhaps less than anxiety, about this fellow-countryman of hers; and it was not in her nervous and sensitive heart to resist his appeal.
She found his lodging (to which he had removed from the Old Rooms inn for economy) to be a room over a shop, half-way up the steep and narrow street of the old town, to which the fashionable visitors seldom penetrated.

With some misgiving she entered the house, and was admitted to the chamber where he lay.
'"You are too good, too good," he murmured.

And presently, "You need not shut the door.

You will feel safer, and they will not understand what we say." '"Are you in want, Monsieur?
Can I give you--" '"No, no.

I merely want you to do a trifling thing or two that I have not strength enough to do myself.