Still it puts a wholesome side of the case which Madame Diderot missed, and which better persons are likely to miss, so long as the exclusion of women, by common opinion or by law, from an active participation in the settlement of great issues, makes them indifferent to all interests outside domestic egoism, and egoistic and personal religion.

Brighter intervals shone in the household.

"I announced my departure," writes Diderot, "for next Tuesday.

At the first word I saw the faces both of mother and daughter fall.

The child had a compliment for my fete-day all ready, and it would not do to let her waste the trouble of having learnt it.