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    LA SCEUR ROSALIE, 801

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    room ; young" students of law and medicine , of the military career and of education . She pressed them all into her service . Nay , she

    made the poorest help one another , and there were very many of the rich who came to La Soeur Rosalie for help which none else could

    benuns stow , so after wisel long y . conversations "My sisters with ! " she members would of sometimes the upper classes say to , her "if

    people knew how very unhappy rich men and women , are , they would feel the greatest pity for them . " Pier plan of remedy for

    this kind of wretchedness was to bring it in contact with the most grievous destitution and calamity , and thus draw it out of itself .

    Owing to the great extent of her relations she _acquired the power of a moral police . One day a young girl fled from her home

    in a distant town , and was supposed to be hiding in Paris with the guilty companion of her flight ; letters , advertisements , all failed to

    reach or to move her , the police found their labor in vain ; they could not find any traces of her whereabouts . At last a priest ,

    whom the family had consulted in despair , said to them " Nobody but La Soeur Rosalie has any chance of finding your daughter for

    you . " And by applying to her the fugitive was actually found after some days . The Sister sent for her , and spoke with that

    authority which conquers the worst dispositions . The girl was comletely subduedand sent back to her mother , penitent and

    rep , claimed . Nay , more than tMs ;—furious at seeing himself balked , the author of all the mischief rushed to the Rue de

    FEpee-de-Bois , his lips full of menace and violence ; La Soeur Rosalie met him with such a dignified rebuke , and showed him the evil of his

    conduct with so much force , that he hung his head wholly abashed hy her words , and offered to do all in his power to repair his

    wickedness . What was even perhaps more remarkable , was her influence over

    philosophical men of the world , whose intellects refused to bow down before her faith , but who were yet swayed by her character .

    The chief physician of the Bicetre , an unbeliever , on his death-bed could not be induced to see Ms family ; from whom he wished to

    hide the spectacle of his sufferings . He only yielded the point at last to La Scaur Rosalie , whom he had known during the cholera

    of 1832 , and who had conceived a great esteem for him ., owing to his exertions at that period . On his side , his feeling for her was

    a sort of worsliip ; in the , feebleness and bitterness of his illness lie found no real comfort except with her , and her name was one of

    the last words pronounced with veneration by lips that seldom gave voice to praise . She once saved the life of a man , by a daring

    stroke of courage . It was in 1814 , while the Allies were in Paris , that a Russian company was quartered in the Horse Market . A

    rumour spread , that a private was about to suffer death for a grave fault against discipline . It came to the ears of La Soeur Rosalie ,

    then quite a young nun , under thirty . She set off , taking with her

    an old , woman , traversed the Russian camp , and asked audience of

    La Sceur Rosalie, 801

    LA SCEUR ROSALIE , 801

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/13/