4A THE STORY OF PAULINE.

quest of Pauline’s, and though he did
refuse to allow her to go to the Fau-
bourg where the Durants lived, he sent
a carriage there to bring Marie to their
chateau. It was a few miles to the
east of Paris, and Marie had never seen
or fancied anything so beautiful.

These two little girls soon became
fast friends. Many might have thought
the gain all on the side of the poor
man’s child; but there were others who
thought differently, when they saw the
influence of her simple, holy life upon
the character of Pauline. Her gaiety
~ and cheerfulness remained, but there was
now a constant though childlike struggle
maintained against the vanity and pride
which everything around her seemed
made to foster.

“ Tt is nice to be pretty, Marie,” she said
one day, “but I often wish I were not; it
makes it so difficult to be good, I think.”