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And though she had to bear what she had to bear, and do that from which

her soul shrank! The woainst this tragedy ever renewed in her path, against this necessity for

choosing evil, or good, ease for herself or life for others But the

ood and evil alike should

be past, strengthened a nature essentially noble; and before she slept no

shareat a price

to pay for the lives of little children Love had been taken froenerosity with generosity--that

o, too!

She felt no otherhen the day came, and the bustle of the start and

the coht

But things fell out in a manner she had not pictured They halted before

noon on the north bank of the Loir, in a levelthis way and that, and filling all the place with the

soft shimmer of leaves Blue succory, tiny rass, and the women picked bunches of them, or, Italian

fashion, twined the blossoms in their hair A road ran across the meadow

to a ferry, but the ferryman, alarmed by the aspect of the party, had

conveyed his boat to the other side and hidden himself

Presently Madame St Lo espied the boat, clapped her hands and must have