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yellows effigy was blues rudely and carved scarlets in wood . St , . and Gudul as rudel he y Was painted represented with bright in p
, armour , with an attempt at a flowing mantle , and riding upon a clumsy black horse . In his hand he held an iron box , to receive
the thank-offerings of those who had been miraculously cured at his well . Behind him rose an iron frame in the form of a crescent ,,
whereon burnt the last taper of a freshly-cured devotee . Above the altar hung a picture of St . Veronicaexhibiting her holy
handkerchief ; it was surrounded by a new , and elaborate , but to our taste , ugly modern frame of cut and stamped leather-work . Upon
our observing to our guide that this appeared a new present to the church , the woman turned quickly away from the altar ,
sayingabruptly , " Madame from the chateau presented it , they say she made it herself in England ; I wonder our good Cure should let
it hang up in the church , for she is a protestant , and , besides , she is not one to send frames for holy pictures . " Perceiving- that this
picture-frame was no more an object of admiration to our guide than it was to ourselves , though _, froin other reasons , we directed :
our attention to the ancient model of a ship steered by the Virgin 9 which hung suspended from the roofand which for many past
generations had been visited , after , perilous ship-wrecks and voyages , hy mariners safely arrived at the nearest port , and who in
the midst of their dangers had called upon the Virgin and vowed to visit her little shrine at Puit aux Pres , should they ever return
home in safety . Votive offerings covered the walls of the little church . Having observed the beautiful bouquet of fresh flowers
which adorned the altar , and which our poor peasant informed us came from the garden of Monsieur le Curewe left the church , and
ac-, companied hy her proceeded to the Holy "Well , of which she was the guardian . The well was situated at the end of her garden , and
to reach it we had to pass the cottage . There we observed , seated within its humble room , a handsomely dressed and very striking
girl . She was singing gaily , whilst her fingers busily embroidered a piece of muslin . She wore a tightly fitting black silk dress and
long glittering gold ear-rings , which flashed in the sunshine . A fashionable bonnet and gay little parasol lay upon a chair beside
her near the open door , as though she had just put them aside . Struck with the contrast this girl formed to the old , poor , and
careworn inhabitant of the cottage , I exclaimed " What a bright , cheerful , and handsome visitor you have , my friend ! We will walk
on ¦ " to Let the her well go" ourselve the woman s , do returned not let with us take a strange you from shake her . of " the
, head , " she is no visitor ; " and before she had gone many steps further , bursting into tears , she buried her face in her apron and
thus sadly led us along the narrow little path worn into hollows and slippery from the tread of many pilgrim feet . The well ,
an ordinary looking spring of clear dark water over-hung with
fenis and ivy , was open to the sky thpugh surrounded by iron
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/40/
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