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    LA SOETJR ROSALIE. 805 I

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    of France . Superstitious terror marked its progress and awaited its would advent inevitabl , and y La make Sceur ainong Rosalie 1 her , depressed greatly alarme fLock d world of at the neig But h hbours avoc the it ,

    day tremble on which d for thexa the first , for victim her nuns was , and struck for down all tke saw - the end . of her fearsshe roused at oncepoint and energy to the efforts of

    individuals ; and the up most active , gave and intelligent aid to the measures taken hy public , authorities , impressing every movement with her

    own tokens of order , promptness , and duration . In the beginning she had great difficultin disabusing the people of that frightful

    suspicion of poisoning y and foul play which so constantly accompanies pestilence . Doctors were menaced with personal injury , and had to

    work under the safeguard of her whom no one dared to suspect . patient One day borne Dr . Royer along Collard on a shutter was walking towards the hy the Hosi side _3 ital of de a la cholera Pitie - ;

    he was recognised in the street , and insulted with cries of _" Muring derer to the to , d save poisoner ying him man . ! " , When and A crowd tried he gathered to lifted make up them round the b cloth him elieve ; which in he vain was covered he endeavor pointed the

    sick face , the general exasperation grew more violent , and a workman sprang upon Mm nourishing a tool , when at the last critical Rosalie moment _' s M ! " . Royer _" That Collard 's a different shouted matter out " , I " am said a a friend dozen of voices La , Sce and ur

    the mob separated , and let him pass on . sensitive In the midst and easil of all the affected public remained agony , she calm , who and was self generall -possessed y so ,

    ordering and sustaining y every , measure of relief , and when the from scourge whom _^ had passed all over had , the been widows swept , the away orphans found , and her the indefati old peox gable _^ le ,

    props , but in supp In caused 1849 lying , more when their mortalit cholera wants and once in arrang the more Faubourg ing appeared for their Saint , it welfare created Marceau . less than terror at ,

    the time of its first invasion y . In a single day , one hundred and fifty deaths were reported in the parish of St . Medard , and sat children down to were eat

    announcing together not counted , nor in new . had For names a a ni whole g adde ht ' s d week rest to the ; , the the sick Sisters bell list , rang never and every an urgent motives moment call ,

    for most the fresh ori thinl gin succour of clad the . pestilence the This worst tim . fed e , As 9 susp and it icion appeared struck fell on down to p spare olitical the the poorest rich , , and the as y

    at first even loye , in d about sp , ite of the their sick courageous a notion devotion spread that , the it was doctors in some and

    lution mysterious nuns emp an idea way onl inflicted to be by dissi _tli , e pated rulers by as the a sacrifice punishment of a for marshal revoy

    length of Prance ; fell , several victims deputies alsoAs , landed to the proprietors inhabitant , s and of the Sisters house , who in the at

    Rue de l'E-de-Bois . it was remarkable that though they were constantly relieving pee each , other by the beds of the sick , not one of

    _YOIi , IV . " _*

    La Soetjr Rosalie. 805 I

    LA _SOETJR ROSALIE . 805 I

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/17/