At six o'clock he returned home, exhausted with fatigue, but with his soul filled with joy.
"I have given away all," he cried, as soon as he saw Pauline, "all! all! all!" He dined, and then went in the evening to perform the usual service for the month of Mary.

But this time, the harmonium was silent; Miss Percival was no longer there.
The little organist of the evening before was at that moment much perplexed.

On two couches in her dressing-room were spread two frocks--a white and a blue.

Bettina was meditating which of these two frocks she would wear to the opera that evening.

After long hesitation she fixed on the blue.