When Hubertine confiscated them there was a terrible scene of tears and cries, as if she herself were being tortured.

After that she was held very strictly, was made to obey, and her freaks were at once checked by keeping her busy at her work; as soon as her cheeks grew very red, her eyes dark, and she had nervous tremblings, everything was immediately made quiet about her.
Moreover, Hubertine had found an unexpected aid in the book given by the Society for the Protection of Abandoned Children.

Every three months, when the collector signed it, Angelique was very low-spirited for the rest of the day.

If by chance she saw it when she went to the drawer for a ball of gold thread, her heart seemed pierced with agony.

And one day, when in a fit of uncontrollable fury, which nothing had been able to conquer, she turned over the contents of the drawer, she suddenly appeared as if thunderstruck before the red-covered book.