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Rh offerings to the goddess; she had spent long hours over her toilette; she had appeared on the streets in her most beautiful vestments and jewels.

But misfortune, having found her, remained always near At last she had been obliged to sell her jewels in order to buy food. The walls of her house, which had echoed music and laughter, became strangely silent. Poverty overwhelmed her. She became thinner; a delicate pallor settled over her cheeks. Weeping, uncomprehending, she had at last parted with her house and had entered the wood to dwell among the courtesans who were old or suffering from misfortune like herself.

The tremble of a step upon the earth roused her. Languidly, she raised her