This position occasioned some rivalry among the women and they finally decided upon Madame Aubain's yard.
Felicite's fever grew worse.

She was sorry that she could not do anything for the altar.

If she could, at least, have contributed something toward it! Then she thought of the parrot.

Her neighbours objected that it would not be proper.

But the cure gave his consent and she was so grateful for it that she begged him to accept after her death, her only treasure, Loulou.