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Rh crowns (£12 10s.) which he has asked for it. Nobody can tell," she added, "the relief that music affords in solitude and misfortune, nor from how many temptations it may be a safeguard in prosperity. Let the teacher of the harp be kept a few months longer; by that time the dear little girl, by making good use of her time, will know enough for her own amusement. Her drawing, also, should by no means be neglected. It is an essential article of education, to which Eudora's care and attention ought to be directed." Taking leave of her in a few lines into which all her tenderness is condensed, she added that proud legacy, "Do what they will, they cannot rob you of my example, and I feel, and I will venture to say, upon the very brink of the grave, that it is a rich inheritance."

The "dear little girl" was not suffered to remain long with the kind family of Madame Creuzé la Touche. How many were the good Samaritans sent to the scaffold in those stormful days for harbouring a suspect or a suspect's helpless offspring! Blue-eyed Eudora must go forth from the hospitable roof—whither was not so clear. Poor little black lamb! who would gather it to the fold, with that Girondin brand upon it? Every schoolmistress shrank from the charge. One at last consented to admit the gentle child, if for the dreaded name of Roland another were substituted. Even that did not suffice for long in the eyes of quaking citizens, haunted by visions of the guillotine. Eudora, in those months of terror, was passed from hand to hand. But her mother's devoted friends, to whom she had bequeathed Eudora, watched over her. She flourished in secret, although deprived of every sou of her parents' property, and it may as well be