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"Margot waited no more, but the next moment the prudent little girl was up the bank and in the cottage, where she found her grandmother alone, to whom she told her troubles. Monique kissed her, wiped away her tears, and, taking her on her knee, she made the little one's eyes once more beam forth with smiles." "There," said Henry, "just as papa said he knew it would be Meeta."
"When Monique told Ella what her father had said, the young girl got leave to go down to the village, and, when there, she went to Madame Eversil, the pastor's lady, and having told her of her father's difficulties, she asked her if she could point out any means by which she might get a little money to help in these difficulties.
He had heard enough, however; and when he went back to the village, he told Heister Kamp what he had seen, and made her more curious than himself to find out what it could be, though she felt pretty sure that it must be a purse of gold. "How astonished was Monique when little Margot put the purse in her lap, for she was sitting at work just within the door.
"'Son, said Monique, 'Margot found this near the waterfall; it must have been lost by some of the visitors; it is a wonder that we have heard of no one coming to look after it. What can we do with it? "'Buy a cow, father, said Jacques. "Martin Stolberg shook his head.
Fairchild proposed that they should take what was in the basket, before they went on to the second part. Mr. Fairchild was called in, and Mrs. Fairchild served each person from the store. "I am quite sure," said Emily, "that Monique Stolberg never made nicer cakes than these." "Papa," said Lucy, "I cannot help thinking that your book is not half so pretty as ours.
It was plain that it was not utterly distasteful. 'Soeur Monique, she said, 'Soeur Monique would sing hymns to me, and then I should not see the imps at night. 'Poor child! And you would like to go? You could bear the journey? 'It would be in the air! And then I should not smell blood blood! And her cheeks became whiter again, if possible.
The Streets now provided for were Union Avenue, between Dorchester and St. Catherine Streets; McGill College Avenue; Burnside Place; Victoria, Mansfield, St. Catherine, Cathcart, Dorchester, and Monique Streets. It was stipulated that Victoria Street and McGill College Avenue "should not be opened, for the present, higher than Burnside Place."
"'Because, replied Monique, 'if any thieves were to hear that we had got so much money in the house, they might come some time when your father was out, and break open the chest and steal it. "'And perhaps they might kill us, replied Margot, trembling all over. "'We must not speak of it, then, said Ella, 'to anyone. "'Our best way, remarked Jacques, 'will be not to mention it to each other.
The superior, with Sisters Louise des Anges and Anne de Sainte-Agnes, were sent to the house of Sieur Delaville, advocate, legal adviser to the sisterhood; Sisters Claire and Catherine de la Presentation were placed in the house of Canon Maurat; Sisters Elisabeth de la Croix, Monique de Sainte-Marthe, Jeanne du Sainte-Esprit, and Seraphique Archer were in a third house.
All the Sunday dresses were put on, and Margot was standing at the wicket in her very best apron, when the mule and the lady appeared again, followed by the pastor and Monique, Ella, and people without number, bearing the things needful for such a supper as had not often been enjoyed under that roof. "Oh, what a happy meeting was that!
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