"But, alas! a painful incident disturbed the serenity of the picture.
Suddenly I heard Dagobert's wife say to him: `My dear--you are weeping!'
"At these words, Agricola, Angela, and Magdalen gathered round the soldier.Anxiety was visible upon every face.Then, as he raised his head abruptly, one could see two large tears trickle down his cheek to his white moustache.`It is nothing, my children,' said he, in a voice of emotion `it is nothing.Only, to-day is the first of June--and this day four years--' He could not complete the sentence; and, as he raised his hands to his eyes, to brush away the tears, we saw that he held between his fingers a little bronze chain, with a medal suspended to it.