Zelie nursed her children herself when they came, cooked, made her flowers, and kept the house.

There was something very touching in this happy and laborious mediocrity.

Feeling that Minard truly loved her, Zelie loved him.

Love begets love,--it is the abyssus abyssum of the Bible.

The poor man left his bed in the morning before his wife was up, that he might fetch provisions.