Why should she worry ?" "She is timid about everything that concerns her children," answered Madame Descoings.

"Well, my good girl," she said, returning to Agathe, "you see they are unanimous; why are you still crying ?" "If it was Philippe, I should have no anxiety.

But you don't know what goes on in that atelier; they have naked women!" "I hope they keep good fires," said Madame Descoings.
A few days after this, the disasters of the retreat from Moscow became known.

Napoleon returned to Paris to organize fresh troops, and to ask further sacrifices from the country.

The poor mother was then plunged into very different anxieties.