hearted calculator, we tape a man who unites with the knowledge of these facts the tender and generous sympathies of an evangelical heart, and the elevation of a superior mind, he will extend his ardent solicitude; not only to the material comfort, but to the moral emancipation, of his workmen.Seeking everywhere every possible means to develop their intelligence, to improve their hearts, and strong in the authority acquired by his beneficence, feeling that he on whom depends the happiness or the misery of three hundred human creatures has also the care of souls, he will be the guide of those whom he no longer calls his workmen, but his brothers, in a straightforward and noble path, and will try to create in them the taste for knowledge and art, which will render them happy and proud of a condition of life that is often accepted by others with tears and curses of despair.Well, Mdlle.Angela, such a man is--but, see! he could not arrive amongst us except in the middle of a blessing.There he is--there is M.Hardy!"
"Oh, M.Agricola!" said Angela, deeply moved, and drying her tears; "we should receive him with our hands clasped in gratitude."
"Look if that mild and noble countenance is not the image of his admirable soul!"
A carriage with post horses, in which was M.Hardy, with M.de Blessac, the unworthy friend who was betraying him in so infamous a manner, entered at this moment the courtyard of the factory.