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And he himself , he added , would make it his business to stand between her and all intruders the moment she sent for him . They did not part till the sun was rising above the eastern hills ; as they separated Paula said : `` So this morning a new life begins for me , which I can well imagine will , by your help , be pleasanter than that which is past . '' And Philippus replied with happy emotion : `` The new life for me began yesterday . '' Between morning and noon Mary was sitting on a low cane seat under the sycamores which yesterday had shaded Katharina 's brief young happiness ; by her side was her governess Eudoxia , under whose superintendence she was writing out the Ten Commandments from a Greek catechism . The teacher had been lulled to sleep by the increasing heat and the pervading scent of flowers , and her pupil had ceased to write . Her eyes , red with tears , were fixed on the shells with which the path was strewn , and she was using her long ruler , at first to stir them about , and then to write the words : `` Paula , '' and `` Paula , Mary 's darling , '' in large capital letters . Now and again a butterfly , following the motion of the rod , brought a smile to her pretty little face from which the dark spirit `` Trouble '' had not wholly succeeded in banishing gladness .