Ah! ah! ah! go and sell it for me, neighbor, and if that is not enough, I have my earrings.
Eh! Genevieve, take them off for me; the earrings will square all! They shall not say you have been disgraced on account of the child--no, not even if I must pledge a bit of my flesh! My watch, my earrings, and my ring--get rid of all of them for me at the goldsmith's; pay the woman, and let the little fool go to sleep.

Give him me, Genevieve; I will put him to bed." And, taking the baby from the arms of his mother, he carried him with a firm step to his cradle.
It was easy to perceive the change which took place in Michael from this day.

He cut all his old drinking acquaintances.

He went early every morning to his work, and returned regularly in the evening to finish the day with Genevieve and Robert.

Very soon he would not leave them at all, and he hired a place near the fruit-shop, and worked in it on his own account.
They would soon have been able to live in comfort, had it not been for the expenses which the child required.