Stories By English Authors: France (Selected By Scribners)
Stories By English Authors: France (Selected By Scribners)
Collins Wilkie
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"I am, praisebe to God!" And being happy, she went to the hovel of poor Madelon Dreux, thecobbler's widow, and nursed her and her children through a malignantfever, sitting early and late, and leaving her own peaceful hearth forthe desolate hut with the delirious ravings and heartrending moans ofthe fever-stricken. "How ought one to dare to be happy if one is notof use?" she would say to those who sought to dissuade her from runningsuch peril. Madelon Dreux and her family recovered, owing to he...r their lives; andshe was happier than before, thinking of them when she sat on the settlebefore the wood fire roasting chestnuts and spinning flax on the wheel, and ever and again watching the flame reflected on the fair head ofBernadou or in the dark, smiling eyes of Margot. Another spring passed and another year went by, and the little homeunder the sycamores was still no less honest in its labours or brightin its rest. It was one among a million of such homes in France, where asunny temper made mirth with a meal of herbs, and filial love touched topoetry the prose of daily household tasks.
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