The things we do!

END OF VOL. I.



MY LITTLE LADY.




_COPYRIGHT EDITION_.


IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.



LEIPZIG
BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ
1871.

_The Right of Translation is reserved_.



PART II.
(continued.)


MY LITTLE LADY.


CHAPTER VII.
Fever.

For more than two uneventful years Madelon remained in the
convent; but early in the third spring after her arrival, a
low fever broke out, which for the time completely disturbed
the peaceful, even current of existence there, and, by its
results, altered, as it happened, the whole course of her own
life.
She was between twelve and thirteen then, and had grown into a
slim little maiden, rather tall for her age, with a little
pale face as in old days, but with her wavy brown hair all
braided now, and fastened in long plaits round her head. In
these two years she has become somewhat reconciled to her
convent life; not, indeed, as a permanent arrangement--it never
occurred to her to regard it in that light--but as something
that must be endured till a new future should open out before
her.


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