In this house it was a little child that lay ill, and as soon as Caius saw it he ceased to hope for its recovery.

They used the new remedies that he had brought with him, and when he looked round for someone who could continue to apply them, he found that the mother was already dead, and the father took no charge of the child--he was not there.

A half-grown boy of about fifteen was its only nurse, and he was not deft or wise, although love, or a rude sense of conscience, had kept him from deserting his post.
"When we have visited the others, I will come back and remain," said Madame Le Maitre.
So they rode on down the hill and along the shingled beach that edged a lagoon.

Here the sea lapped softly and they were sheltered from the wind.

Here, too, they saw the other islands lying in the crescent they composed, and they saw the waves of the bay break on the sand-bank that was the other arm of the lagoon.