Oeuvres Francoises de Joachim Du Bellay V2: Gentil-Homme Angevin (1867)

Being new to her, she took a pride and a delight in seeing her brother appealed to, as the friend of all occasions; not as the richer man whose purse was thought of, but as the wiser, kinder, better man, to act for them and with them. She stood by silently when the walk they were taking together was interrupted by a peasant, to say he had a sick child, and the doctor said it was bound to die; would his Reverence please to come and comfort its mother?