LITTLE "Gold, as well as stars, glitters for astronomers," 

 JOURNEYS said little Miss Burney. "Mrs. Pitt is very rich, meek, 



quiet, rather pretty and quite unobjectionable." 

 But poor Caroline ! It nearly broke her heart. William 

 was her idol she lived but for him now she seemed 

 to be replaced. She moved away into a modest cottage 

 of her own, resolved that she would not be an encum- 

 brance to any one. She thought she was going into a 

 decline, and would not live long anyway, she was so 

 pale and slight that Miss Burney said it took two of 

 her to make a shadow. 



But we get a glimpse of Caroline's energy when we 

 find her writing home explaining how she had just 

 painted her house, inside and out, with her own hands. 

 Q Things are never so bad as they seem. It was not 

 very long before 'William was sending for Caroline to 

 come and help him out with his mathematical calcu- 

 lations. 



Later, when a fine boy baby arrived in the Herschel 

 solar system, Caroline forgave all and came to take 

 care of what she called " the Herschel planetoid." She 

 loved this baby as her own, and all of the pent-up 

 motherhood in her nature went out to little " Sir John 

 Herschel," the knighthood having been conferred on 

 him by Caroline before he was a month old. 

 Mrs. Herschel was beautiful and amiable, and she and 

 Caroline became genuine sisters in spirit. Each had 

 her own work to do; they were not in competition 

 save in their love for the baby. 



As the boy grew, Caroline took upon herself the task 

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