Justine Moritz’s Brief History

“And now I must tell you a little story that will please, and perhaps amuse

you. Do you not remember Justine Moritz? Probably you do not; I will relate

her history, therefore, in a few words. Madame Moritz, her mother,

was a widow with four children, of whom Justine was the third. This girl had always

been the favourite of her father; but, through a strange perversity, her mother could

not endure her, and, after the death of M. Moritz,

treated her very ill. My aunt observed this; and, when Justine was

twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to allow her to live at her