if the suddenness of her calamity, and the whirling wheels of the time, had stunned the doctor's daughter into awaiting the result in idle despair, it would but have been with her as it was with many. but, from the hour when she had taken the white head to her fresh young bosom in the garret of saint antoine, she had been true to her duties. she was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.