She sat on that chair with her eyes staring open and her face as white as if she were dead.

She did not seem to hear anything I said; but at last, when Virginie's sobs were stopping, I began to talk to her about her mother and her pretty ways when she was a child, and then at last Jeanne broke down, and she cried so wildly that I was frightened, and then Marie cried too; and after a while I persuaded them all to lie down; and as I have not heard a sound for the last hour I hope the good God has sent them all to sleep." "I trust so indeed, Louise.

I will stay here quietly for an hour, and then if we hear nothing I will go home, and be back again in the morning.

Sleep will do more for them than anything I can say." At the end of an hour all was still quiet, and Harry with a somewhat lightened heart took his departure.
At nine o'clock next morning he was again at the house.

When he entered Virginie ran to him, and throwing her arms round his neck again burst into a passion of tears.