54 THE STORY OF PAULINE.

poor little girl realized that she was all
alone. “What shall I do? what shall
I do?” she sobbed, forgetting that there
was none to hear. Then falling on her
knees, she prayed to God to take care of
a little, lonely child, for Jesus’ sake; and
the very act of doing this helped to
comfort her.

When it became very dark, she rolled
herself in a rug and lay quietly down
upon a sofa.

It was then that the holy lessons of old
Jeanette and Marie came to her mind,
and one favourite couplet of Marie’s was
as a sweet refrain to her all through this
long night,—

‘Quite alone, and yet not lonely,
Tl converse with God my Friend.”

When the morning came, and the warm
July sun shone into the room, she never
thought of moving, but lay quite ex-.
hausted with fear, fatigue, and hunger. —