She felt it as heavy as lead, now; never would she be able to raise it again.

Providence would not permit Camille to be avenged.

It withdrew from his mother the only means she had of making known the crime to which he had fallen a victim.

And the wretched woman said to herself that she was now only fit to go and join her child underground.

She lowered her lids, feeling herself, henceforth, useless, and with the desire of imagining herself already in the darkness of the tomb..