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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