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LABOULAYE 5 FATRY BOOK more return to Salerno. I shall recerve my reward here for the little good I have done by tasting a happiness which time will not destroy." "And me, grandmother!" cried Graceful, "what shall become of me? After seeing you here, how can I return to suffer alone?" "My dear child,” she replied, "no one can live on earth after he has caught a glimpse of the celestial delights of this abode. You have lived, my dear Graceful; life has nothing more to teach you. You have passed in four days through the desert where I languished eighty years, and henceforth nothing can separate us.” ‘ The door closed, and from that time nothing was heard of Graceful or his grandmother. It was in vain that search was made for the palace and enchanted fountain; they were never more discovered on earth. But if we understood the language of the stars, if we felt what their gentle rays tell us every evening, we should long ago have learned from them where to look for the Castle of Life and the Fountain of Immortality.
