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EUGENIE DE GUERIN. 95
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extreme beauty of _lier cliaracter , but in order to persuade ourselves that we are not impertinent intruders , that we may allow ourselves
to be grateful for what is given us , without a painfully scrupulous arrihre sionto pensee printing . Still and , we are and not full binding y reconciled . Journals , on such concealed an occa for
-, , paper , , the most part with extreme caution in her lifetime , —meant only for Maurice , and , after his death , for one of his special friends : —to
have these turned over by every sort of reader in every sort of mood , is revolting , at least at first sight , to any tender conscience ;
startling and to criticize then , to there because English are they reli Protestants g are ious so musings engrained , which , some yet in one the ideas can character which hardly . are endure With very
all thishowever , we have here the actual fact of the printed book —and , it is lain , that the few surviving relatives and the Editor
have dealt with p their materials with reverential caution . Too much so , some may say , and indeed it must be admitted that the
frequent render the lacunes record and puzzling scant , y and notes detract of exp from lanation its inter do est sometimes and the
beaut M . y Trebutien of connexion writes . simply and beautifully—with great reticence ,
lioweverwhich in such a case is a fault on the right side—but he has iven , we in , should the notice suppose prefixed , forgotten to the that first some edition few of of the Eug particulars 6 nie de
g Guerin ' s " _Reliquse" ( published in 1855 ) are _tinlmown to the reader In , iving and should some sketch have been of the repeated character . of Eugenie de Guerin , let
it be remarked g that we do not hold her up as a great social _ivorTcer . and She had at one a strong time wi inclination shed to join to the the Sisters vocation of of St a . Josep Sister h , of in Charit Algiers y ,
—but all passed in the rnind only—and she never migrated from her father ' s home except on visits to Paris , to Nevers , and to a
very she died few other at La p Cay laces la _, where where she she went was born on err , in ands May of , 1 kindness 848 , aged , and 43
vocation ended —nine in years Jul of Eugenie y after , 1839 the . . death Being Her blameless of rather the beloved than purit doing y brother , her , in read — short whose y benevolence dedication , was career the
of herself to the service of others , her life of modest and goodness , her intense , never-ceasing friendship and interest in the body and soul of one precious relative , committed to her charge
in early life , make the study of her secluded days deeply touching . father She was was of born an ancient in 1805 and ; the noble first famil child still of distinguishe her parents d . in Her his
y , own province . The Guerins , or rather the Guarinis , ( for such was their early name , ) were established in France in the 9 th centuxy .
One branch furnished the Montagues , Counts of Salisbury . A . John Bishop of , two Jerusalem Cardinals are , two Grand the number Masters of of those the Kni who ghts made of the St . among
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Eugenie De Guerin. 95
EUGENIE DE GUERIN . 95
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/23/
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