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"My poor dear child," said my father, "I cannot accept your sacrifice, but I shall always remember your thought of me; and in the meantime, if you like, we can go and buy another Bible like yours that I, too, may read it. How will that do?" At this Paula clapped her hands in delight, as she said, "Indeed, that will be wonderful!" "Lisita," said Paula to me one day on returning from school, "Mlle.
"I'm coming down by the ladder." "No, you'll do no such thing! Now, come on; don't be a coward!" Just at this moment we heard a voice calling, "Louis! Lisita!" Louis turned to see Paula calling us from the bottom of the garden. "And now what do you want?" cried Louis. "I thought you had gone home." I profited by this diversion to come rapidly down the ladder.
"Never fear," I said, "she can go another time." But she shook her head as if trying to throw off something painful that seemed to be on her mind. "Oh, Lisita, if you could but know how lonely Catalina will feel as she sees us go without her. When I took her breakfast to her yesterday and saw that she had been crying I simply could not bear the thought of leaving her at home alone."
It is I who have been wicked, whereas you have been so very, very sick, while I enjoy such good health." "Yes, that's true," said Catalina, "but I'm older, and I should have shown you a better example. I had always thought of myself and now it's too late to change! Come, dear Lisita, come and kiss me once more."
"Well," I said, "I always seem to be the one that gets something something that's bad and horrible." "I think that Mlle. Virtud is sick," continued Paula. "You're always thinking of that woman. I tell you, it doesn't make any difference to me what happens to her," I said impatiently. "Oh, Lisita, aren't you ashamed to say such a thing?" "No," I said, "How do you expect me to like her?
Doubtless our old servant had come in to speak to her regarding Paula, and finding her apparently asleep had arranged things as I found them. She turned her head on hearing me come in and in a sharp tone exclaimed, "What a noise, Lisita! Can't you give me a single quiet moment!" "You know I haven't been here all day!" I answered impatiently.
We'll go from here at the dot of nine, according to my watch, and that's what I'll tell Teresa in case she asks us. Of course, if she doesn't ask us, we don't have to say anything. Besides, I do it for you and Lisita, for if you were boys instead of girls, there would be no reason to return so early. Now, up with you. Yes, or no." "Not I," said Paula, with a heightened color. Louis was furious.
"I think we might eat a little bread and jam to accompany her," I said. Then everybody laughed. "I think Lisita is right for once," said Teresa, always happy when she was able to give us a bit of pleasure; "and I think Paula will be a little more comfortable that way." "Now then, Paula, are you not hungry?" asked Teresa with her hand on the lock of the kitchen door.
A little later, Paula said to me, "I certainly would have loved that New Testament, for there are two or three favorite passages with which I would like to refresh my memory, but I simply can't deceive my uncle. But what am I going to do, Lisita? I must never forget what I promised papa when he died."
I saw someone coming to our help. We soon recognized with joy that it was Dr. Lebon. On seeing him the boys ran away with the exception of Joseph, who was a little too late. The Doctor, who knew him, suspected he was the guilty one, and succeeded in getting him by the ear. Then the doctor said to me, "What has happened, Lisita?" And I told him the whole story.
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