What should I be without your house and the children ?--always the same mountain, the same palm-trees, the same faces!--" "But the mountain is glorious, the trees are beautiful!" answered Dorothea.

"And if we love the people with whom we are in daily intercourse, even here we may be contented and happy.

At least we ourselves are, so far as the difficulties of life allow.

I have often told you, what you want is work." "Work! but for whom ?" asked Sirona.

"If indeed I had children like you! Even in Rome I was not happy, far from it; and yet there was plenty to do and to think about.