And she would work in that house where everybody worked.

She would help the little community pending the time when she might meet and love some worthy fellow who would marry her.
Five more years elapsed without Marie consenting to quit that happy home.
The sterling education she had received was lodged in a vigorous brain, which contented itself with the acquirement of knowledge.

Yet she had remained very pure and healthy, even very _naive_, maidenly by reason of her natural rectitude.

And she was also very much a woman, beautifying and amusing herself with a mere nothing, and ever showing gaiety and contentment.

Moreover, she was in no wise of a dreamy nature, but very practical, always intent on some work or other, and only asking of life such things as life could give, without anxiety as to what might lie beyond it.