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EUGENIE BE GUERIN. 99
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take M and . Feli li refuge ght , ( thus and in stud trul he y is y it and always is in here the called one Lord oug in . the I felt famil come , in y ) , first that approaching mysterious divine
things awe with and which great men one ; is but always soon this seized that trembling on approaching ination changes ives into
confifalse dence idea and of abandonment great souls , , and when I find it represents imag them as g inaccessible a very and forbidding to the vulgar . Far from that , their glory of , seen near ,
paternal is great simp man le , kindness and . M mild . Feli , and and has the childlike forced tender me . familiarity to No forget one is his so of fame easy his , conversation throug access h as his a .
hands All his bod genius and is swallowed soulhoping up in that his this goodness great . artist Behold will me carve in the his
dencies statue , from in our y the studies shapeless . , We block have . We all one each end follow —the our Science natural of Duty ten- ,
Catholic science : but we tend towards it by different ways , accomplishing Much that the great is beautiful law of and variet noble y in follows unity . " ; but our extracts must Guerinbe
have a limit—and in a notice of Eugenie de , they may sion thoug of ht her disproportionate that Maurice . ' Yet s career it is essential should be for followed the comprehen . It is
difficult to resist one ' s desire to extract from , the entries of the when brother it take what the seems form to of bear letters upon to home the . sister Thus 's p in art— a letter especiall ad y -
s , dressed there is to truth his sister and justice Marie , in thoug his h there laints is something of the nice of testiness scales in ,
- comp which gaged in his a conduct monotonous was but weig wearing hed at emp La Cay loyment la . , He and was mig then ht fairl en y - write in
complain of a little unreasonableness . He says : — " I the which general attachment remain rapidl , y and which , between which I feel are lessons for mostl — y when can very hardl short I can y be . , in As the the I subj think moments ect of that a
you forms doubt , and it happens end the for letter want abruptly of time . now As and to then the , r t eproach hat I pass of over the and
breadth of insis it not somewhat childish ; can one seriously accuse my marg another , of coldness because at a finger things ' s bread throug th h of
closel microscope paper is what left . . blank friendshi . . ? Good It could is Heavens looking bear it ! looking ? great I do at not peop believe le so very any a y
one gains , by being so sharp p ly observed ; the secret dealings of all such miserable matters" [ After noticing other accusa- *
men are . tionshe comes to one from Papa . ] " I persist , he thinks , in systems , of politics and religion . Once for all , I pray you believe my
never words , think I have of no these kind things of system ; they in are any total thing strangers or for any to thing me , . and I
Eugenie Be Guerin. 99
EUGENIE BE GUERIN . 99
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/27/
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