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    302 LA SCBUR ROSALIE.

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    _tlie _general . Being * at once introduced , she threw herself at his then feet , and and imp are lored attached him to to spare him the ! " soldier cried ' s the life officer , _* ' You , seeing know 1 how him

    my ardent _brothers , "was her "boug prayer ht with . _" the Yes blood , " said of she our , Lord " I love Jesus Mm the Christ as one , and of of

    I am ready to give my life to save his . " She gained pardon the condemned man , and returned home , astonished at her own success and scared at her own audacity .

    "We find a chapter of the memoir devoted to " La Sceur Rosalie's Parlor , " which apartment , small , shabby , and ill-lighted , was the

    much very damp , centre and more gnawe of impressive her d by activit the from mice y ; an ; their a old matting paper subjects on on the than the floor wall their , a few , stained execution pictures by , ,

    a , little clock which was generally stopped , a bookcase with very few books in it , a writing table piled with accounts and receipts , and

    round the room two stools and four straw chairs ; such was for thirtthe appearance and the furnishing of this room . Add

    to thi y s years that every corner on which any thing could be laid , the top of the chimney-piece , the shelves of the bookcase , and the desk , were

    covered with opened letters , bearing post marks of all the countries of the worldpetitions addressed to all tlie powers that be , reports ,

    prospectuses , ; and papers of every imaginable nature , and we have a notion of La Sceur Rosalie's parlor ; and this small room never

    emp reckon tied how . A young man le who came was into acting it in a as sing her le secretary day . He , wished counted to many peop

    • as far as five hundred , and the day was not done . Among the crowd were workmenand priests high in the church ; the humblest

    traders , and peers of , France . She would usually begin with the poorest iving to an old man his admission to an asylum , to a

    widow a ; school g presentation for her child . She provided a good mistress for an apprentice and put the unemployed workwoman

    into a shop , gave her name to one who sought its sanction and told another where to find instruction or an occupation . She would

    then parcel out their work to the charitable ladies who helped her , and listen to those who had to tell her of the visits they had made .

    These audiences were wound up by the despatch of letters and messages , always very many in number , and executed by a crowd

    word long of peop hours _Tbore le , anxious , some every reference minute to busy was themselves to consecrated a charitable on . her to end a errands good ; and deed . During during , and every these fifty

    for years that aid caused these and b audiences y without illness , any without took of place the the with business repulse no of other being any interruption one negle who cted soug or than ht ill

    done . , Hither came also the greatest men in politics and literature , pretexts drawn "b y for curiosity putting and themselves interest , in and connection sometimes with seizing La Scaur the sli Rosalie ghtest .

    The Abbe Emery , to whose care her mother had confided her when

    first she went to Paris , kept up an intimacy with her until his

    302 La Scbur Rosalie.

    302 LA _SCBUR ROSALIE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/14/