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EUGENIE BE GUERIN. 107
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her father ' s room , sometimes to _attend to his comforts , to serve his breakfast perhapsduring * which she read to him . At nine
she retired to her , room and went through the _jarayers of the , mass . If her father was well and did not want her , she read ,
wrote , or worked , or spun , which she was very fond of ( as gifted in her hands as in her mind ); sometimes to superintend the menage ,
which she directed with infinite taste and cleverness . " At noon she went into her room again , and recited the Angelus :
then came dinner . That over , if weather permitted , she took a ivalk to amuse her father , or made a visit to a neighbouring
hamlet , where there might be a sick _jDerson to see , or some one afflicted to be comforted . If she resumed her reading at her
return , towards two o ' clock , she took up her knitting and knitted while she read , not allowing even tlie shadow of idleness to pass
over her . At three , she retired again , and usually read some book of devotion—the _lifeperhajDSof the saint of the day . She
thenwhen this was over , -wrote , till about five o'clockif her father , did not want her . At , frve o'clock , she recited the , Rosary ,
and meditated till supper . At seven o'clock , she talked with the family , but still did not lay down her work . After supper ,
shewent into the kitchen for family prayer with the servants , _oy to . teach the catechism to some ignorant poor child who had come in
at the time of work in the vintage . The rest of the evening was given to work , and by ten she was in bed , having _filled on the
subject for meditation on the morrow _, that she might _sleej _} upon a ' good thought . " told the authoritthat her fatal illness lasted two
We are by same y near years ; . but "T she believe did not full _sj y _^ , e " ak her of it sister she wrote would , have " that dreaded she saw distress death
ing us . " One day , however , these , words escaped her , " You will not have me much longer . " After having received the Holy
find Sacrament . All , is she vanit said to ' her she sister added , . " Take Did this the key sister , and burn l ? all W you ecomp
y , y know not . The conclusion of the present notice can be little but a repetition
of what we have said of Eugenie de Gruerin . Xet looking at the volume , as it must appear to Protestant eyes , we of course
anticipate and partake in some painful emotions which it may excite . In the minds of some readers there will not fail to
be pity and even a degree of contempt for the delusion of one who could look for a miracle to be wrought by Prince Hohenlohe ' s
prayers . The whole life , however , is consistent with its own light . The growth of a noble nature under a certain system , fully acceded
to , and forming an absolute rule of thought and action , is a study in itself , whatever the rule may be , if there bo the most perfect
sincerity . Again—If those who take up the Journal are tempted to dwell I 2
Eugenie Be Guerin. 107
_EUGENIE BE GUERIN . 107
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/35/
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