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    THE SORROWS ; OF ESTEIiiLE ¦ LAMAGE. - 3...

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    ¦* »¦ The Other Day I Walked With Madame...

    b half his -way maledictions down the street when by we the found petition ourselves s of Croesus passing , and the the other low stone half

    wall cli y pped of Monsieur hed le _OpxDOsite , Cure ' s to garden these , behind garden walls which a rose winding high path and le well ads

    from steps the hi ges g A h . road smoothl to the mown little old church bank . rises Thither along we one first side directed of the

    our . y green number path , continuing of small to unpainted the church wooden yard . This crosses bank , a is cross surmounted being by left a

    b the y each termination funeral of procession this road which stands passes a little along cottage the path covered . Near with

    lilac honeysuckle with the , Michaelmas clematis , and daisies ivy ; . and At its the garden open door is at of this the cottage season ach

    stood lay which saluted ing an hung her us old work and upon peasant slowl aside a nail , woman and she beside silentl took knitting the down led door a . the , coup and As way le she coming to of saw the large forth us church ru appro , sty quietl yard keys y . ,

    An indescribable , something y about y the woman drew our attention to herWith a dejected air she opened the black wooden gates of

    . the church yard , and standing within them pointed with her keys to a stone tomb erected by a lady of the neighbourhood , who within ten

    not with days wh had a deep but lost si I her gh said , six while turning children tears to . rolled her " A . much h down _, quel touched malheur her cheeks b / y " . her she I uttered tone know of

    voice" y You , also have , had some great , sorrow ? " With a sudden start , she grasped my hand , and led me over the green mounds and

    amid the black crosses to a distant corner of the little enclosure , where , beneath a weeping willow and before a tall black cross , she

    knelt , and devoutly crossing herself , began her devotions , shedding read many : tears " Pray the for while the . soul Painted of Blanche in white Marie letters Castee upon , aged the nineteen cross we

    years the remains , who departed of her infant this life daug , May hter , 2 Estelle nd , 185 Castee —; and , aged here one also month rest

    and a few days , who departed June 3 rd , 185— . " The intense feeling evinced by the poor woman and her earnest

    devotions occasioned us , though of a different faith , to pray with her inwardly , not however , as she did , for the repose of the soul of

    her whose mortal remains lay beneath the black cross , but for the for peace it mi of that ght restless be ten soul minutes who prayed she still before earnestl it . y Thus praying we , remained and we

    , greatl took She turned my y impressed hand the and huge by led key her me in , deep my the friend lock grief , . the following At door length op , to ened the she , church and rose , standing again porch , _.

    within , she brought forth a large shell crumbling from antiquity and filled with holy water . Having crossed herself , she

    presented it to us , exclaiming in a low voice , "My friends , you are Christians !"

    the Leading village us saint into , the the patron church of , she the showed Holy Well us , the St . Gudul wooden phe effi . gy This of

    The Sorrows ; Of Esteiiile ¦ Lamage. - 3...

    THE SORROWS ; OF ESTEIiiLE ¦ _LAMAGE . - 399

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/39/