should you sew, and work, and torture your poor head with anxiety, and spoil your beautiful eyes, and ruin your health? Why, indeed? Ah, little Barbara, little Barbara! Do you not see that I shall never be any good to you, never any good to you? At all events, I myself see it. Yet I will help you in your distress. I will overcome every difficulty, I will get extra work to do, I will copy out manuscripts for authors, I will go to the latter and force them to employ me, I will