Myself, I have wondered sometimes--but let that be; it is the lot of certain of us, who think in our vanity that we could have done great things, to be obliged to do the small things, because God has so decreed.

To one He gives the ten talents, to the other only one talent, or even but a franc.

Whatever it be, of it we must make the best, and so long as we do not bury it, we have done well.

I can only say that I have tried to use my franc, or my fifty centimes, to such advantage as I could, and hope that in some other place and time I may be entrusted with a larger sum.

Oh! my boy, we are all of us drawn by the horses of Circumstance, but, as I believe, those horses have a driver who knows whither he is guiding us." A few days later Godfrey went.