And now, on his return from them, he had his hands full of lottery tickets: "Ah! my fine fellow," said he, "I don't advise you to venture among all those young persons.

You would have to part with your last copper.

But, just look! there's Mademoiselle Camille beckoning to you!" Camille, indeed, from the moment she had perceived Gerard, had been smiling at him and awaiting his approach.

And when their glances met he was obliged to go to her, although, at the same moment, he felt that Eve's despairing and entreating eyes were fixed upon him.

The girl, who fully realised that her mother was watching her, at once made a marked display of amiability, profiting by the license which charitable fervour authorised, to slip a variety of little articles into the young man's pockets, and then place others in his hands, which she pressed within her own, showing the while all the sparkle of youth, indulging in fresh, merry laughter, which fairly tortured her rival.
So extreme was Eve's suffering, that she wished to intervene and part them.