128 EUGENIE AND LEONCE.

 

work was over for the rest of his life. She sent the
little girl to Paris to learn dressmaking, and the
eldest boy was apprenticed to a joiner. The Count
Amilly gave the old man a little house and a few
acres of land, also a cow.

Eugenie too was rewarded, for every one loved and
respected her. The Count now saw that his children
knew and appreciated the proper use of money, and
so he gave them full possession of the fortune he had
destined for their use.