being by a law as unchangeable as destiny,—nay, by a
sleepless night; her feeble voice,--in short, everything about her
proved an excess of suffering she could not have borne a second time,
When Oscar entered the room she signed to him to sit down beside her,
and reminded him in a gentle but grieved voice of the benefits they
had so constantly received from the steward of Presles. She told him
that they had lived, especially for the last six years, on the
delicate charity of Monsieur Moreau; and that Monsieur Clapart's
salary, also the "demi-bourse," or scholarship, by which he (Oscar)
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