his lips to the last. Margaret survived her son only by a week, and
Madame de la Tour, who had borne all her terrible losses with a
greatness of soul beyond belief, lived but another month.

By the side of Virginia, at the foot of the bamboos near the church of
Pamplemousses, Paul was laid to rest. Close at hand the two mothers were
buried. No marble is raised over their humble graves, no inscriptions
record their virtues, but in the hearts of those who loved them, they
have left a memory that time can never efface.

With these words the old man, tears flowing from his eyes, arose and
went away.

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GEORGE SAND


Consuelo


The life of the great French novelist, George Sand, is as
romantic as any of the characters in her novels. She was born
at Paris in July, 1804, her real name being Armandine Lucile
Aurore Dupin. At eighteen she married the son of a colonel and
baron of the empire, by name Dudevant, but after nine years
she separated from her husband, and, bent upon a literary