And when the Countess had made him sit down beside her in front of the chimney-piece, it was in a low voice that he told her the lamentable story of Laveuve, and asked her support to secure the man's admittance to the Asylum for the Invalids of Labour.
"Ah! yes," said she, "that enterprise which my son wished me to belong to.

But, Monsieur l'Abbe, I have never once attended the Committee meetings.

So how could I intervene, having assuredly no influence whatever ?" Again had the figures of Eve and Gerard arisen before her, for it was at this asylum that the pair had first met.

And influenced by her sorrowful maternal love she was already weakening, although it was regretfully that she had lent her name to one of those noisy charitable enterprises, which people abused to further their selfish interests in a manner she condemned.
"But, madame," Pierre insisted, "it is a question of a poor starving old man.

I implore you to be compassionate." Although the priest had spoken in a low voice the General drew near.
"It's for your old revolutionary that you are running about, is it not," said he.