Her earnings from this source were considerable; and, severely stinting herself in the very necessaries of life by a strained ingenuity of economy, to which the skimped delaineturned and altered to the utter exhaustion of the cleverest dressmaker's invention, and magically rejuvenated, as though again and again dipped in the fountain of perpetual youthbore conclusive testimony, she bravely reinforced her fund from time to time.

The water of the Trevi has a peculiarly rejuvenating effect upon me, and something impels me to bathe in it." "Do you mean in the fountain?