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    304 IiA SCETJii ROSALIE.

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    considered , that it had been individually decorated in her person . It will be easilconceived from this account of her various visitors ,

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    provincial hel opened ped . to her Public charities proteges offices and . , The ma congregations n bishops ufactories made , the everywhere room very for railways them received in their were her

    ; before friends . the hi law " travelling these found by welcome land and kind sea officers , " in the , and army friendl , na y y , advo even

    her cates friendshi . Ct One mi , for ght a traverse safe-ard the . " length As , she and breadth old of she France leant with too grew ,

    much to the p side of indul gu gence ; but for the few who misused her confidence and betrayed her guarantee her , indefati a multitude were kindness saved , and and

    well energy placed be . in imag The honorable ined oddity , since of careers peop some le of b think y the app nothing lications too gable made large to or too She her small may

    to ask of those whom they conceive to possess power . was sell hosp supposed tobacc ital , and to ! hold was It the was app keys lied in to vain of to the that procure Council she a told prefecture of the State suitors _^ as or well a she license was as of not to a

    o persuaded a cabinet minister of her irresistible , and did not influence go to . court It . sometimes They were happened obstinatel that y her

    great foreign ladies came to see her , and if anything prevented charm from showing them b them her leasant the state welcome of the that faubourg how , could she would they yet refuse so

    her , when next y day p came a note with , request for help in some quarter Little where by little they her were faubourg known cast to have aside influence its air of ! extreme

    wretchedness . It is still , one of the worst in Paris , and nobody can cure its children poverty ; better but as clothed years went and fed on and it becam were gathered e Christi into anised schools ,, the ,

    were , furniture was collected in its households , and it was no longer unknown to the visits of the better classes . La Sceur Rosalie reconciled it in itself

    to no she it with society sli would ght warmth , agent and often it , in just repeat repaid moral as she " her improvement it served is with a great a it grateful with . deal zeal On better love her . " , side It which than is , calumniated she was peop defended le will , "

    the believe riches ; its and poverty luxury reveals of , less other wickedness quarters than of the lurks town hidden . " under There

    gathered is something like very a n touching hty child many in to this a mother picture ' s of heart a wretched ! population ,

    aug amidst Having the reviewed dailduties our of heroine her order ' s life , let in us its see more how general she dealt aspects with

    the two . supreme y calamities of modern Paris : the cholera , and the spirit It was of revolution in 1882 . that the cholera was signalled as at the threshold

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    304 Iia Scetjii Rosalie.

    304 IiA SCETJii ROSALIE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/16/