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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Come along, then," said Victoria as she blew on her hands that were purple with the cold, "I'll take you to her door." She took us up four flights of stairs when at last we came to Mlle Virtud's apartment. "Here you are," said our little guide, and downstairs she went. I started to follow her on down. "Oh, Lisita," cried Paula; "remember your promise." "Well, why don't you knock?"
In school Paula never did win prizes nor did I. Both of us were generally about on an equal level at the bottom of our class. About a year after our first visit to Mademoiselle Virtud's house, Madame Boudre had moved us up to the Third Grade. Teresa made a magnificent apple-cake as a sign of her pleasure.
Virtud's room and heard the stories with great delight. "If I had been able to leave my Victoria in school she would have become as wise and learned as you, Mesdemoiselles," she would say a bit sadly at times. "But there, I can't complain; what would we have done without the money she earns at the factory?" One afternoon we said good-bye to Gabriel and mounted the stairs to visit the blind girl.
Virtud's newly-painted little house, with its tiny garden in front in all the splendor of its spring dress. "Come in, Paula," said our teacher of former days. "Your present is in here in this front room." We all followed after Paula, eager to see the result of her inspection of the "present." Paula took one step, and then stopped on the threshold.
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