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"He never saw her again?"

"Never, but he worshipped her very nath

to him 'Mothers!' he used to say, 'if you only knew your power! God be

merciful to the ard one who has no"Hehe was lishwoman, almost as friendless as himself"

"Eyes the other way, at the --thank you! Did she knoho he

was?"

"Nobody knew He was only a poor Italian doctor to all of us in Soho"

"Theythey werehappy?"

"As happy as love and friendship could make them And even when poverty

caot known that Doctor Roselli was a revolutionary, and then

his English patients began to be afraid The house in Soho Square had to

be given up at last, and ent into a side street Only two rooms now,

one to the front, the other to the back, and four of us to live in them,

but the misery of that woman's outward circumstances never dimmed the

radiance of her sunny soul"

Ro thick "She

died?"

David Rossi bent his head and spoke in short, jerky sentences "Her

death came at the bitterest moment of want It was Christmas time Very