day. It is true, she had no more lace with which to decorate another
handkerchief, but the sale of this would supply the money to purchase
anew, and in this way the simple minded girl saw no reason why she
might not continue on as long as health and strength would allow--at
least as long as her grandmother lived.

Hope is as blessed a provision for the poor and unhappy as occupation.
While oppressed with present ills they struggle to obtain a fancied
existence under happier auspices, furnishing a healthful and important
lesson to man, that never ceases to remind him of a future that is to
repair every wrong, apply a balm to every wound, if he will only make a
timely provision for its wants.

Again did Adrienne resume her customary round of duties. Four hours
each morning were devoted to me. Then followed the frugal breakfast,
when her commoner toil for the milliner succeeded. The rest of the day
was occupied with this latter work, for which she received the
customary fifteen sous. When she retired at night, which the ailings and
complaints of her grandmother seldom permitted before eleven, it was
with a sense of weariness that began to destroy sleep; still the dear girl
thought herself happy, for I more than equaled her expectations, and
she had latterly worked on me with so much zeal as to have literally
thrown the fruits of two weeks' work into one.

But the few francs Adrienne possessed diminished with alarming
rapidity. She began to calculate her ways and means once more, and
this was no longer done as readily as before. Her own wardrobe would
not bear any drain upon it. Early in the indisposition of her grandmother,
all of THAT had been sold which she could spare; for, with the
disinterestedness of her nature, when sacrifices became necessary her