"We should not make terms with tried friends.

Come, we will pay her devotion this compliment.

It is such a small favor.

For my part I feel obliged to her for asking it." Josephine's health improved steadily from that day.

Her hollow cheeks recovered their plump smoothness, and her beauty its bloom, and her person grew more noble and statue-like than ever, and within she felt a sense of indomitable vitality.